Absolute nonsense. Go is an unbelievably simple straightforward language, and any mature language always has exhaustive test suites to exercise implementations

Absolute nonsense. Go is an unbelievably simple straightforward language, and any mature language always has exhaustive test suites to exercise implementations of it. There are numerous compilers for C++, one of the hariest languages around, that were developed with no telemetry and work just fine and cover the entire language spec. Some of these compilers like G++ and Clang++ manage to target many different architectures with very few issues. The obsession with telemetry is a mix of laziness and I strongly suspect user-hostile surveillance motives. We're just going to have to lock down OSes. Giving any application carte blanche network access is like when apps had open access to all of system RAM and the whole filesystem back in the MS-DOS / Windows 3.x days. Maybe unauthorized (by the user) telemetry should be like invalid memory access and trigger something akin to SIGSEGV. That'll send a message.