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Re:Go: Support for Generic Methods by jpc0 on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:52PM (#48296974)
> term “systems program” has always meant network middleware that shuttles around JSON and transforms it.

Who are we that has always defined that term that way. For any systems programmer golang has pretty much not been a solution.

Systems is below layer 4 of the network stack, it is building the network stack in the first place.

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Re:Go: Support for Generic Methods by masklinn on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @12:57PM (#48297053)
I think your sarcasm detector has gone missing chief.
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Re:Go: Support for Generic Methods by Joker_vD on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @03:35PM (#48299397)
Um, there is user-level implementation of TCP/IPv4+IPv6 stack in Go [0], developed and used by Google as part of its gVisor.

[0] https://github.com/google/netstack

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Re:Go: Support for Generic Methods by bborud on Thursday May 28, 2026 @06:58AM (#48307247)
"Systems program" or "systems programming" is a meaningless term because people use it differently. Discussing what it means is a waste of time. It is better to be specific.
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