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As a long-time open-source maintainer, I find all the second-guessing and armchair psychoanalysis here (not just in this comment, all over HN) about Tridge's motivations, state of …

The $20K was the total across all the files scanned, not just the one with the bug.

Worth noting these were not written as rules of programming generally but rules specifically targeted at complexity. They are lifted from the "Complexity" section of Rob's "Notes o…

Raises hand.

FWIW, the versions are not semver but they do follow a defined and regular version schema: https://ai.google.dev/gemini-api/docs/models#model-versions .

[Also posted to Lobsters: https://lobste.rs/s/ms94ja/what_is_go_proxy_even_doing#c_vz2... ] I apologize for the traffic. We clearly need to look at the “thundering herd” you are ob…

This is a strange and dangerous thing to try to do from assembly. In particular, all these details about write barriers being hand-coded in the assembly are subject to change from …

The parent comment is the first time I've said anything publicly (it has only been a few weeks). I didn't feel like it needed an announcement, but since it came up, it seemed worth…

Officially, I have left the Go team too; I started on a new team at Google a few weeks ago. I still use Go quite a bit, I still talk to people on the Go team regularly, and you wil…

Those are semantically different (one is nil and one is not) but neither allocates.

Not sure what the betrayal is? He contributed a quote for yesterday's post. https://tailscale.com/blog/tailscale-enterprise-plan-9-suppo...

We had to do some Plan 9 work, which makes sense when doing something new, but the actual Tailscale implementation is far _less_ work than for other Unixes.

https://docs.rs/txtar/latest/txtar/

In the link in the parent comment. :-)

People who go install it get an error that it's not a valid source tree at all.

While you can create and build a local package with U+FE0E in its file name, you cannot create or download a module using that character in a file name. So you could run this attac…

No. It's just Go assembly. (It happens to be a Plan 9-derived syntax, but we call it Go assembly.) See https://go.dev/doc/asm .

I replied to the other copy of this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41136122 .

This is definitely not true. "Inside of Google" would have been just linux/amd64 for a very long time. Now it includes linux/arm64 too, but that port happened before Google needed …

If you just want to run Go programs on Alpine, it works fine. (I put some effort in back in Go 1.21 to make sure that the downloaded binary toolchains for Linux even work fine on A…

Happy to hear that. Still going to write and think. :-)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek1yjc9sSag&list=PLrwpzH1_9u... I don't intend to make more of those, but that was a lot of fun.

Me too!

The wording may be a joke but the concept is real and widely used.