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Please support our runtime proposal https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51900 We're trying to add Cosmopolitan to Go's list of supported runtimes!

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This thing of yours is quite an accomplishment. Even so, I hope it goes no further. If it does (& it probably will, because it is convenient), most of the computing world will have stacked yet another sub-optimal low-level mono-culture on top of the one that was already there.

From the robustness/survivability perspective, the mono-cultures we have are bad enough.

Yes we're already stuck with all these mono-cultures, so why not just define the union of all these mono-cultures into a single build target?

In the world where a windows binary is not expected to run on a mac, and vice versa, they still have the option to change things on an as-needed basis (like the golang breakage on osx). In a world filled with APEs, you will have canonized all of the present OS idiosyncrasies that made APE possible in the first place, & we will be stuck with them forever.

Nah eventually every operating system is just going to support x86_64-linux-gnu and there won't be a need for APE in our glorious future. In that case, Cosmopolitan will just be a non-GPL libc that goes as fast as Glibc. But until all operating systems become fully developed, we have an outstanding hack to hold us over.

> eventually every operating system is just going to support x86_64-linux-gnu

Whether it's batteries included, or batteries sold separately, we'll still be stuck with batteries. If I want to run Linux on my Mac, that's what UTM is for.

Despite my reservations, nothing but respect, & enjoyed your Feross presentation.

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