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nasretdinovtoday at 4:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Go was born into 64-bit era, I remember seeing many more bugs that only occur on 32-bit systems. I'm pretty certain the observation in the article is correct that no one at Google tests Go on anything apart from 64-bit ARM/x86 Linux


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typical182today at 4:52 PM

FWIW, every commit for the Go project is tested on multiple 32-bit architectures, including pre-commit tests and post-commit tests.

You can see a list here:

https://build.golang.org/

(That particular build dashboard just shows post-commit tests. '386' there is 32-bit x86, 'arm' is 32-bit ARM.)

I can't speak to what Google runs in production or what Google tests internally, but the Google-run CI for the Go project definitely does test 32-bit, and those tests essentially match the tests run against 64-bit.