Hello,

is there an interest to port Go programming language on MorphOS?

Given that Go uses a garbage collector, I'd say no. Garbage collected languages need at least 2 thread concurrency.

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We already have pthread...

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Yes... However we have one core in CPU so this multithreading can work slow. I think there could occur “WebKit effect” in Wayfarer where garbage collector without sepearte core is reason of performance lower than we expected.

BTW
I hate garbage collector. :) I am not an expert but in my opinion automatic reference counter (e.g. Swift, Objective-C) is better. :)

[ Edited by MDW 07.01.2025 - 10:36 ]

Regardless of garbage in or garbage out, what would be the actual benefits of having Go?
Would it allow interesting SW to be ported? And who would be doing such ports?


I'd say since I doubt Papiosaur plans to port Go himself it's not a question even worth asking.
If someone actually considers doing such a port the question would IMO only be valid if it was along the line of "should I port Go or do x,y and z?".

@Kronos: i have beginning to port with the help of Claude IA. Many file have been generated but not all. I will try to do tests when it will be in alpha version (when all files will be generated).

I have a friend talk me about Go language and seems interesting language.

@all: If somebody want to help me to port it, i could release the files on my Github.

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So the question wasn't "is there an interest to port Go programming language on MorphOS?" but more like "is there an interest in having the Go programming language on MorphOS?".


Some fine difference ;)


On short notice I haven't found any Go projects worth porting (mostly stuff for severs and container apps) and I'm not sure if many would choose it for fully native MorphOS apps.

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There’s always some weirdo doing stuff that’s totally unsuitable for the language in question. 😉

https://github.com/IntuitionAmiga/IntuitionEngine

@Intuition

So you're planning to port that Amiga-wannabe virtual machine to MorphOS?

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If someone ported go and all its dependencies then it wouldn't need porting, it would just compile.

But I don't plan on that. Doesn't benefit me in the slightest lol

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"Amiga-wannabe"

There's nothing Amiga-like about it. CPU is basically my interpretation of what a 32bit 6502 would be, audio chip is a subtractive synth with no pcm, video is chunky with no planar.

[ Edited by Intuition 09.02.2025 - 12:05 ]

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Mkay, may need a rename than... ;)

The point is that I think whenever someone wants something ported he should be able to point out the point.

Running a non Amiga Amiga wannabe on an actual Amiga wannabe OS sounds pretty pointless for me.

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It’s called Intuition Engine.

It’s right there on the repo description “A modern 32-bit reimagining of the Commodore, Atari and Sinclair 8-bit home computers”

[ Edited by Intuition 09.02.2025 - 14:02 ]