Creating an Operating System in Go

[JonathanWilbur]

Disclaimer: I ask as an outsider. I know very little about Go. I just did the Go tour in its entirety, but otherwise, I have never programmed in it.

So I know about Gofy, the operating system written in Go, but looking at the GitHub stats, it looks like a majority of it is written in C. So is it possible to create an operating system mostly in Go?

More technically, aren’t abstractions like channels dependent upon an underlying multi-threading operating system? Wouldn’t I have to use a limited subset of Go if I wrote an operating system? What about the garbage collector? Can I disable it?

[bins (Sebastien Binet)]

I know about:

• https://github.com/achilleasa/gopher-os

with a few slides:

• https://speakerdeck.com/achilleasa/bare-metal-gophers-can-you-write-an-os-kernel-in-go
• https://www.golanguk.com/videos/2017/can-you-write-an-os-kernel-in-go/

[JonathanWilbur]

That’s awesome. Thanks!