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[./src/case_studies/TiogaPass.md]=1
[./src/coreboot.u-root.systemboot/index.md]=1
[./src/SUMMARY.md]=1
[./src/u-root.md]=1
[./src/utilities/dut.md]=1
[./src/utilities/UEFI_Tool_Kit.md]=1
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# Benefits of using the Go user-space environment and compiler
# Benefits of using Go for firmware

Go is a systems programming language created by Google. Go has strong typing,
language level support for concurrency, inter-process communication via
channels, runtime type safety and other protective measures, dynamic allocation
and garbage collection, and closures. Go has a package name notation similar to
Java that makes it clear to determine what packages a given program needs.

The modern language constructs make Go a much safer language than C. This
safety is critical for network-attached embedded systems, which usually have
network utilities written in C, including web servers, network servers
including `sshd`, and programs that provide access to a command interpreter,
itself written in C. All are proving to be vulnerable to the attack-rich
environment that the Internet has become.
channels a la Occam[^1], Limbo[^2] and Alef[^3], runtime type safety and other
protective measures, dynamic allocation and garbage collection, and closures.
Go has a package name notation similar to Java that makes it clear to determine
what packages a given program needs.

Even the most skilled programmers can make mistakes that in C can be
unrecoverable, especially on network connected systems. Currently, even the
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BusyBox-style program. Alternatively, programs can be fetched over the network,
but compiling dynamically with Go or creating a BusyBox program are the
recommended solutions.

[^1]: MAY,D.Occam.ACMSigplanNotices18,4(1983),69–79.
[^2]: RITCHIE, D. M. The limbo programming language. Inferno Programmer’s
Manual 2 (1997).
[^3]: WINTERBOTTOM, P. Alef language reference manual. Plan 9 Programmer’s Man
(1995).
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