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Ugly bug, but I'm very impressed to see a first time contributor able to fix a compiler bug in 6 hours! Seems to lend some credence to the assertion that rewrit
by schmichael 11y ago
Ugly bug, but I'm very impressed to see a first time contributor able to fix a compiler bug in 6 hours! Seems to lend some credence to the assertion that rewriting everything in Go would make it easier to maintain.
- vhost- 11y agoI too found that to be pretty awesome. I've spent a few hours looking at the compiler source and the runtime code and a surprising amount of it is very understandable to me.
- Maken 11y agoIt looks to me more like an accomplishment of git-bisect, which let the contributor isolate the bug to a few lines of code in a single commit.
- 4ad 11y agoGit-bisect helped a lot, yes, but you can see that the commit in question was huge, and complex, not "a few lines of code".
- sshykes 11y agoGit-bisect for the win! On another note, I find it very odd that this fell off the front page so quickly. Is there some kind of go/google voters club on HN that flags anything that seems negative towards go?