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This is actually one of the reasons I trust the Go project is in good hands. The Go leadership has smart engineers, with good taste, willing to say no. The Go
by alphazard 4y ago
This is actually one of the reasons I trust the Go project is in good hands. The Go leadership has smart engineers, with good taste, willing to say no. The Go module implementation and version selection mechanism are better than what the community had converged on.
Go has demonstrated that its governance model is capable of making better decisions than a pure democracy. This is not the case for most open source projects.
- lanstin 4y agoAnd they, unlike almost any open source group outside of Linux and maybe libc, take compatibility seriously. Volunteers break so much stuff so wantonly, and it just isn’t necessary technically. I left a job and came a few years later, and the Go code all still worked under 1.19.
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