Ask HN: What If Windows Phone OS Is Written in Go?

Politics and language wars aside, it could look exactly the same as the current Windows Phone. The language used to implement an OS has no bearing on the visual appearance, UX, etc. I wouldn&#x27;t expect the performance to be much different either.<p>BTW, you can write apps in Go on Windows and run them on Windows. Don&#x27;t know how different the tooling would be for Windows Phone.

And then? Who cares about what language the OS is written in? Customers surely don&#x27;t.

Investors would be outraged by the stupidity because Windows Phone runs Windows.

You already answered the question - &quot;They will be thinking wildly&quot; :)

While GO is a great language, I doubt it has any significant advantages over C#. Also, Microsoft is doing very well with the phone dev, its the end developer who&#x27;re not writing apps. And they are not-not writing apps because of PL issues, C# is much more popular than Go, they are not not writing because they are trendy.