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Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma Join Forces on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation

• arccy 2y ago
  also known as magic that go itself won't support.
  • rad_gruchalski 2y ago
    Why not? Isn’t this just a consolidated effort to create a tool invokable by the toolexec flag?
    • arccy 2y ago
      The difference between compiled code vs the code you wrote makes behaviours non-obvious. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/69887 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/69887
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      • rad_gruchalski 2y ago
        The written code is the code that is executed. What’s wrong with that? I’d take macros instead of that any time of the day. Java has the same mechanism, the -javaagent flag. It has exactly the same drawbacks you mention.
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