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He wants a language which can (preferably) run on everything from 8 bit to 64 bit CPUs and also run on various embedded OSes.

C# only covers a very small subset. Somewhat more if you include Mono, but I guess that puts it in the same league as Java which he did mention.



Does Go run on 8-bit CPUs? I highly doubt it, given that Go uses its own runtime system including garbage collection.


Quoting Google's Russel Cox in a mailing list discussion linked to above: "Go requires that int be at least 32 bits and that int64 and uint64 be supplied; practically that means we've given up on 8- and 16-bit CPUs."




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