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I think determinism would be way better than a system with some pseudo random setup. I think hand waving away the specific language used, ie "determinism" witho

• Gwypaas 4y ago
  Causality and determinism are different, and it honestly makes sense to have it be random to tease out bugs as early as possible. For a prime example see hash maps in Go, which is specifically non-deterministic when iterating over them to prevent users from relying on any kind of implicit behavior. > "When iterating over a map with a range loop, the iteration order is not specified and is not guaranteed to be the same from one iteration to the next." https://go.dev/blog/maps https://go.dev/blog/maps
  • jeffparsons 4y ago
    > [...] prevent users from relying on any kind of implicit behavior. Except now you just _know_ that somebody out there is using hash map iteration order as a source of entropy. ;)
    • Gwypaas 4y ago
      Hush! > "Is map iteration sufficiently random for randomly selecting keys?" https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41019703/is-map-iteration-sufficiently-random-for-randomly-selecting-keys https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41019703/is-map-iteratio...