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> People can choose to use Go or they can choose not to use Go. What about those who use a source-based distro and have to use software written only in Go?
by gavinhoward 4y ago
> People can choose to use Go or they can choose not to use Go.
What about those who use a source-based distro and have to use software written only in Go?
- icholy 4y agoYeah true, I hate it when Alec Warner breaks into my house and forces me to recompile my user-space at gunpoint.
- arp242 4y agoYou trust your distro to make choices that align with your preferences. Personally I've always preferred distros that change upstream as little as possible, but other distros make other choices on this, which is also entirely reasonable. Assuming this proposal is implemented as stated – which I don't expect it will – then I'd expect some distros to disable it by default. Go already provided the tools to set these kind of things globally in a recent release (1.20 or 1.19 IIRC) with a global go.env file.
- gavinhoward 4y agoDo you really expect that Google will respect that environment variable forever? I sure don't.
- arp242 4y agoYes, I do. Plus, Go is still open source; they can't "just sneak it in".
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