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		read_again on Aug 10, 2013 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Plan 9 ported to the Raspberry Pi > 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?

foobarbazqux on Aug 10, 2013 [–]

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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