<story><title>A turning point for GNU libc</title><url>http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/488847/cb91a5cc3d179f3c/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>luriel</author><text>&amp;#62; The kernel may be the core of a Linux system, but neither users nor applications deal with the kernel directly.&lt;p&gt;The amount of complexity in a modern libc, glibc in particular, is mind-boggling.&lt;p&gt;One thing I love about Go is that it completely bypasses even libc, the Go runtime and stdlib use syscalls directly(well, except on Windows, for obvious reasons), in a way a Go program is &quot;closer to the metal&quot; than a C program.</text></comment>
<story><title>A turning point for GNU libc</title><url>http://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/488847/cb91a5cc3d179f3c/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>16s</author><text>These links (not mine) may help explain a lot to those who may be unfamiliar with Ulrich: &lt;a href=&quot;http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/Ulrich_Drepper_Is_A_.html&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/Ulrich_Drepper_Is_A_.html&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>