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Such a typical example of someone completely rational, forgetting humans aren’t only about logic. People have emotions, doubts, suspicions, trust issues, affect
by bsaul 4y ago
Such a typical example of someone completely rational, forgetting humans aren’t only about logic. People have emotions, doubts, suspicions, trust issues, affect, all of which aren’t easily quantifiable. The reason people don’t want telemetry in go is simply because of the brand google. That’s just a fact and there’s nothing one can do or say to change that. And yes, forcing it to the users will cripple go to death in a very short time, that’s for sure.
Google brand is what helped the language get traction, also simply because of google having the image of being a tech powerhouse.
That’s life, fighting against this is pointless, i’d suggest rsc to move on to other ideas for getting info on how to improve the language.
- verdverm 4y agoVS Code has much more tracking going on, yet it is used by 3/4 developers. If tracking were an issue, you would think this statistic would be very different
- bsaul 4y agoYeap that's my point. Tracking isn't the issue, tracking by google is.
- nixcraft 4y agoBoth MS and Google are evil. Therefore, there is no reason for VS code to enable this tracking; the same goes for Golang and Google. What next? Adblocker/tracker blocker extension for IDEs and compilers?
- bsaul 4y agoms isn't nearly as intrusive as google. I'm using a mac, browse on firefox, but since i'm using google and because of adsense's everywhere they know everything about me. MS only knows the things i'm typing in vscode. Pretty mild.
- spritefs 4y agoIt's an IDE Adding tracking to an actual language is unheard of, but can't say I'm surprised Google is trying