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Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by AnimalMuppet on Thursday January 04, 2024 @10:16PM (#38875299)
For people of Pike's generation, "systems programming" means, roughly, the OS plus the utilities that would come with an OS. Well, Go may not be useful for writing the OS, but for the OS-level utilities, it works just fine.
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Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by jayd16 on Friday January 05, 2024 @02:41AM (#38876708)
Has it found success in OS-level utilities? What popular utilities are written in Go?
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Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by ziotom78 on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:41AM (#38877025)
Not sure these are really popular, but I cannot resist advertising a few utilities written in Go that I regularly use in my daily workflow:

- gdu: a NCDU clone, much faster on SSD mounts [1]

- duf: a `df` clone with a nicer interface [2]

- massren: a `vidir` clone (simpler to use but with fewer options) [3]

- gotop: a `top` clone [4]

- micro: a nice TUI editor [5]

Building this kind of tools in Go makes sense, as the executables are statically compiled and are thus easy to install on remote servers.

[1]: https://github.com/dundee/gdu

[2]: https://github.com/muesli/duf

[3]: https://github.com/laurent22/massren

[4]: https://github.com/xxxserxxx/gotop

[5]: https://github.com/zyedidia/micro

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Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by pjmlp on Friday January 05, 2024 @03:03AM (#38876833)
Being self hosted?

Gokrazy userspace?

gVisor?

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Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by konart on Friday January 05, 2024 @06:10AM (#38877867)
Not sure what should be counted as OS-level.

Is docker cli and OS level? What about lazygit? chezmoi? dive? fzf?

Actually many popular utilities are written in Go

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Re:Go: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong by nolist_policy on Friday January 05, 2024 @06:37AM (#38878056)
Docker and Podman.
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