goose
Booting Golang on bare-metal (by tgascoigne)
eggos
A Go unikernel running on x86 bare metal (by icexin)
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
goose
Posts with mentions or reviews of goose.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-10-18.
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random question from a beginner, has anyone written an OS in Go?
EggOS looks pretty close. Goose too. At least, they're Go programs designed to boot on bare metal.
eggos
Posts with mentions or reviews of eggos.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-12-23.
- Let's Embed a Go Program into the Linux Kernel
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I just began to learn programming, here is how I see languages:
I need to admit i was wrong about the bare metal part. There even is some attempt at an operating system written in basically pure Go.
- In Praise of Plan 9
- random question from a beginner, has anyone written an OS in Go?
- Any OS development project in Go?
What are some alternatives?
When comparing goose and eggos you can also consider the following projects:
gopher-os - A proof of concept OS kernel written in Go
G.E.R.T
go - The Go programming language with support for bare-matal programing
gvisor - Application Kernel for Containers
router7 - router7 is a small home internet router completely written in Go. It is implemented as a gokrazy appliance.
ops-examples - A repository of basic and advanced examples using Ops
unik - The Unikernel & MicroVM Compilation and Deployment Platform
kernel - A Rust-based, lightweight unikernel.