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No, I was just pointing out a drawback. Of course there are advantages too.

In this particular case, though, I wonder why the Go team is planning to spend a lot of effort rewriting an already existing compiler. Rewriting a popular project from scratch can be a dangerous temptation.



They explain why in detail here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1P3BLR31VA8cvLJLfMibSuTdw...

Also, you don't have to download a binary of Go to compile the latest Go. You can download the Go source back when it was compiled by C, compile it, and then compile the later, Go-sourced versions, if for any reason you need to go that far.





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