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		stonogo 10 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Porting Tailscale to Plan 9 Seems like the real story here is that the Plan 9 port of Go is not particularly healthy, and that it's easier to modify an OS kernel than it is to fix Go?

bradfitz 10 months ago [–]

The Plan 9 port of Go _was_ not particularly healthy. It is now.

Fixing Go to not special case Plan 9 benefits all platforms--- all operating systems use the same code paths now, making the code simpler.

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