Comment by rcarmo
14 hours ago
No, it's bringing Aleph to the masses. Limbo is a cousin, and Dis was certainly very interesting and something I wish had caught on.
14 hours ago
No, it's bringing Aleph to the masses. Limbo is a cousin, and Dis was certainly very interesting and something I wish had caught on.
Aleph lacked GC, which Rob Pike considered the main reason for its implementation failure on Plan 9, and initially bounds checking was also missing.
Two key design difference from Go and its two predecessors.
Dis is an implementation detail, Go could offer the same dynamism with AOT toolchain, as proven by other languages with ahead of time toolchains available.
Dis is not an implementation detail for Inferno, though. And I wish it had gone much further.
I agree, but that is another matter.
However I will commit the sacrilege to suggest Android is the closest we got there on mainstream OSes.