For another view: http://dtrace.org/blogs/wesolows/2014/12/29/golang-is-trash/
I'm partly with the dtrace guy, but it is nice to see somebody not propagating that gcc inline asm shite... so I'm prepared to forgive it a certain amount.
I'm partly with the dtrace guy, but it is nice to see somebody not propagating that gcc inline asm shite... so I'm prepared to forgive it a certain amount.
But I can't quite figure out whether this Go assembly stuff is a real feature that makes sense and is well-designed, or if it's just a quirk of the implementation, stemming from its background in Plan 9.
The assembly section in the Go docs literally says "go read the Plan 9 docs first". That's kind of weird.
https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/hash/crc32
That has different .s files for different architectures, and a .go file with the platform-independent version, so the assembly clearly isn't platform-independent.
It seems a strange decision to disguise e.g. arm64 assembly behind an x86-like syntax, so I'm going to go with "quirk of the implementation."