On the majority of other OSes, each programming language used to have its own linker.

This is why although I dislike some of Go's decisions, I am quite supportive of its uptake.

- Bostraped language, with very few dependencies on C

- Runtime library makes direct use of syscalls, instead of taking the easy way and depend on libc

- It has its own linker

- Despite the GC hate and the whole discussion what is "systems programming", people are indeed slowly using for such purposes