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On-by-default makes me question whether rsc's judgement has been compromised, which leads me to question continuing to use the language. A strange miss for him.
by ergonaught 4y ago
On-by-default makes me question whether rsc's judgement has been compromised, which leads me to question continuing to use the language. A strange miss for him.
- nicce 4y agoOff-by-default in a scale likely means that there is no telemetry at all. I would not cancel a guy or programming language based on just suggesting that. He has given a lot of though for that if you read the blog posts.
- cwkoss 4y agoIf a take a dollar from everyone but it's opt out, that's still theft. If I make it opt in, nobody is going to give me the dollar, but that doesn't make opt out morally justifiable.
- nicce 4y agoYou are comparing apples to oranges. Telemetry is a curse word these days, but you should still read his posts.
- ergonaught 4y agoI would expect nothing less of him than to give a topic a great deal of thought and devise a principled and rational solution. I am, however, reminded of a quote from Peter Drucker: “There is nothing quite so useless as doing with great efficiency something that should not be done at all.” I’m not picking nits regarding the overall proposal. I’m questioning the judgement that concluded/rationalized “on by default” is the right thing to do. Also not “cancelling” at the moment, either, but definitely reassessing my future language choices and taking a more critical appraisal of Go’s direction/choices. This isn’t really an isolated incident, and trust has accumulated some dents.