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Yay. This is something that, as a Go programmer, turned me off of Rust. We need to build a new world on new foundations without the risks of libc.
by jeffrallen 5y ago
Yay. This is something that, as a Go programmer, turned me off of Rust. We need to build a new world on new foundations without the risks of libc.
- pjmlp 5y agoDespite my critics of Go, one thing I really appreciate is the Go toolchain, and the decision to bootstrap the language. With Go the usual "my compiler compiles your language" is out of the discussion table.
- chakkepolja 5y agoFor me, its cross compilation being as easy as compiling with environment variable.
- steveklabnik 5y agoThe problem is, on most platforms, that is literally impossible. Go has had to roll this back on many of them due to it. Linux making this possible is actually an outlier here, not the norm.