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Is it just me or Golang started gaining momentum recently? More and more related articles/OSS projects/HN links show up every day.
[0] https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-pyth...
Related: Wireguard is a new VPN for linux in 4k lines of C https://www.wireguard.com/ the model of wireguard has been proven correct by formal methods. Builds on modern crypto, and they kept code short for auditing purposes.
Upon reading the title I wondered "would anyone ever create a VPN client that doesn't use encryption?" and thought, with the "2k lines" as additional evidence, that it was the source code which was somehow encrypted/obfuscated to e.g. prevent censorship... I was also expecting to see a single file at that line count, but then again I'm not really familiar with Go. Is this style of "many tiny files in multiple nested…
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When I first saw Go I was put off by its syntax, but after giving it a chance I very quickly fell in love with it. I've used C#, Python, Ruby, Java, C, Obj-C, JS and Go for mid-large scale projects. Go is the only language I've ever truly loved; sometimes I even feel like I'm writing poetry (as ridiculous as that may sound). The community is really incredible^, I've yet to encounter anything that didn't have great do…
Genuine question as I've only dabbled in Go, but I've heard complaints from other dabblers that Go seems to encourage large files rather than breaking things up in a more modular fashion. Is that a reality? Or has the complainer just been unlucky in the code they've viewed?
Upon reading the title I wondered "would anyone ever create a VPN client that doesn't use encryption?" and thought, with the "2k lines" as additional evidence, that it was the source code which was somehow encrypted/obfuscated to e.g. prevent censorship... I was also expecting to see a single file at that line count, but then again I'm not really familiar with Go. Is this style of "many tiny files in multiple nested…
They do, but generally call it tunneling. L2TP and GRE links that don't use IPSEC are fairly common on private WANs.
I suspect the author was trying to point out that the encryption was included in the 2k lines, versus say, calling out to ssh.
Is it just me or Golang started gaining momentum recently? More and more related articles/OSS projects/HN links show up every day.
When I first saw Go I was put off by its syntax, but after giving it a chance I very quickly fell in love with it. I've used C#, Python, Ruby, Java, C, Obj-C, JS and Go for mid-large scale projects. Go is the only language I've ever truly loved; sometimes I even feel like I'm writing poetry (as ridiculous as that may sound). The community is really incredible^, I've yet to encounter anything that didn't have great do…
[1] http://devs.cloudimmunity.com/gotchas-and-common-mistakes-in...
Is it just me or Golang started gaining momentum recently? More and more related articles/OSS projects/HN links show up every day.
No it's not you [0]. Rust, Go, R, and Python have the highest year-to-year growth. [0] https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-pyth...
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When I first saw Go I was put off by its syntax, but after giving it a chance I very quickly fell in love with it. I've used C#, Python, Ruby, Java, C, Obj-C, JS and Go for mid-large scale projects. Go is the only language I've ever truly loved; sometimes I even feel like I'm writing poetry (as ridiculous as that may sound). The community is really incredible^, I've yet to encounter anything that didn't have great do…
Genuine question as I've only dabbled in Go, but I've heard complaints from other dabblers that Go seems to encourage large files rather than breaking things up in a more modular fashion. Is that a reality? Or has the complainer just been unlucky in the code they've viewed?
It's not uncommon in other projects either, NodeJS for example has a relatively small number of large files (https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/src/node.cc).
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No it's not you [0]. Rust, Go, R, and Python have the highest year-to-year growth. [0] https://stackoverflow.blog/2017/09/06/incredible-growth-pyth...
Python is interesting in that list, given how it's at least 4 times as old as all of the other ones in that list. What's behind that? I don't recall any major developments after Python 3, and most of the news behind that one was about its backwards incompatibility (and currently how 2.x isn't about to go anytime soon)
sshuttle is another great tool with a similar use case. One advantage is that it doesn't require any server setup at all, as long as you have ssh access. https://github.com/sshuttle/sshuttle