On: Surprising result while transpiling C to Go

[Fnoord]

Someone even developed a complete SOHO router in Go: Router7 [1].

[1] https://router7.org/

[kokada → Fnoord]

This certainly doesn't look like a embedded device though:

> The reference hardware platform is the PC Engines™ apu2c4 system board. It features a 1 GHz quad core amd64 CPU, 4 GB of RAM, 3 Ethernet ports and a DB9 serial port.

[detaro → kokada]

That's an embedded device, sure. Embedded doesn't mean "microcontroller only".

[kokada → detaro]

I didn't mean to imply this. I consider most router hardware embedded, but they includes CPUs. It is just that they're CPUs that you would generally consider embedded (like a SoC).

And BTW, my reply was mostly because of the context: people were talking about binary sizes for Go, but if you're using PC-like hardware you wouldn't care about binary sizes anyway (you can simply put more storage, even something like a 1GB SD Card would be way bigger than something like OpenWRT that can run with hardware as low as 8MB of Flash memory).

[p_l → kokada]

"Embedded" has no relationship with size, though. And that's moderately big for "embedded" anyway.