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> How do I find out which programs on my system are Go programs? Well how are these programs getting onto your system? Presumably via some package manager, or
by chrisseaton 4y ago
> How do I find out which programs on my system are Go programs?
Well how are these programs getting onto your system?
Presumably via some package manager, or an image builder?
Don't those manage the update for you?
If you're running code that you don't know who wrote, with no source code, that you can't patch, that nobody is taking responsibility for, then yeah you've got issues. But you had issues already if that's the predicament you're in. Some of this applies to Java too - obfuscation breaks the fixes you described using!
- 0xbadcafebee 4y agoMost people download and install Go programs by hand since they're statically compiled, it's their main selling point > If you're running code that you don't know who wrote, with no source code, that you can't patch, that nobody is taking responsibility for, then yeah you've got issues 25 million computers around the world still use Windows XP. It was launched 21 years ago, EOL 8 years ago. Very common actually, especially since most software in the world is not open source. People just keep using software that works.
- kelnos 4y ago> If you're running code that you don't know who wrote, with no source code, that you can't patch, that nobody is taking responsibility for, then yeah you've got issues. This is the default state of affairs for nearly everyone who uses a computer. We can either throw our hands up and futilely say "well they shouldn't do that!", or we can try to solve the problem.