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exDM69 on Sept 29, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Modern terminal-based text editor

Linux considers syscall API stable and there's a pretty hard rule of not breaking user space.

int_19h on Sept 29, 2017 [–]

Linux does, yes. MacOS and BSDs do not. (Neither does Windows - but so far as I can see, Go doesn't try to invoke the NT APIs directly there.)

Stability is guaranteed on userspace API level - e.g. libc. So well-behaving apps are supposed to just use that, and let it handle syscalls. But Go doesn't.

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