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cpeterso on Feb 8, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Go and Assembly

I see recent commits in Go's mercurial history to fix bugs on Plan 9. Is anyone at Google actually using Plan 9 to develop Go? Or is building for Plan 9 just a sanity test for maintaining cross platform code?

Wikipedia says the last "stable" release of Plan 9 was in 2002, but there seem to be a number of recent forks.

4ad on Feb 8, 2013 | [–]

Plan 9 is on a rolling release since 2002.

burntsushi on Feb 8, 2013 | [–]

There are people that don't work at Google who contribute to Go. It's an open source project.

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