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Except for the fact that it'll be years before all of the subtle bugs are worked out and you can rely on those apps to be as stable as the ones we've got: http
by mixologic 11y ago
Except for the fact that it'll be years before all of the subtle bugs are worked out and you can rely on those apps to be as stable as the ones we've got:
http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html
- eloff 11y agoWe have years. They're passing whether we like it or not. In the meantime you can choose whichever implementation of the Unix tools that you want. In the future there may be more options that fit the bill, developed in a safe language without the kinds of buffer overflows and things that exist in C tools today.
- danieldk 11y agoWhat's wrong with doing this for fun's sake or educational value (both for the authors or people who want to study Go)? If it turns out to be more widely used, at least it's safer than C code.
- mpweiher 11y agoYeah, just because Joel said so doesn't mean it's true. I've been responsible for a bunch of rewrites that were resounding successes and typically reduced the bug load (subtle or not) by orders of magnitude.