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Russ Cox  
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 More options Nov 11 2009, 1:50 am
From: Russ Cox <r...@golang.org>
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2009 22:50:05 -0800
Local: Wed, Nov 11 2009 1:50 am
Subject: Re: [go-nuts] Re: windows version?
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> So in other words.. It'll be a half-assed second class barely working
> implementation for years to come like as with so many other ( open-
> source, cough ) projects? I know none of the cool kids would ever
> touch Windows ( 0h my g00dn3ss gr4c10us ), but Windows is important
> enough platform that it really deserves proper support directly within
> the official "plan."

Go is not like Chrome or Android: it is an experiment, not a product,
and we don't know where the experiment will lead.  There is no
"official plan".

We understand that a significant fraction of computers in the world
run Windows, and it would be great if those computers could run
Go programs.  Adam's comment was not intended to be dismissive:
we hope Go will run on Windows, but we don't have the resources
to do everything, and there are issues that are more important to us.

I have done low-level Windows programming in the past and have
at least passing familiarity with the Go runtime; I would be very happy
to see Go running on Windows and am more than willing to answer
questions and offer advice.

Russ


 
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