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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by read_again on Saturday August 10, 2013 @03:08AM (#6190321)
> You can't write a kernel in Go because it has a mandatory runtime system and garbage collection.

Could you please provide a link or two on that, or give some explanation on why this is not possible?

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Re:Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi by foobarbazqux on Saturday August 10, 2013 @03:14AM (#6190327)
It's quite possible, here's an example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Singularity_%28operating_syste...

They only used C and assembly for interrupt handling.

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