Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam

Re:Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam by oddthink on Sunday April 02, 2017 @10:58AM (#14017376)

Yeah, the ML parts aren't in Go. I'm working in TensorFlow, so it's C++ scripted by Python. But there's a lot of incidental stuff that needs to be done, most of which I don't want to spend cycles on thinking hard about, and Go does a good job there, in that narrow niche where I want something that runs on one machine but find python too slow.

At a previous gig, I had done a lot of F#, and I think that's close to my personal sweet spot, but I'd have to use it frequently to keep it in my head. Go is small enough that I can load it into cache when I need it.

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Re:Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam by danieldk on Sunday April 02, 2017 @01:49PM (#14018142)

But there's a lot of incidental stuff that needs to be done, most of which I don't want to spend cycles on thinking hard about, and Go does a good job there, in that narrow niche where I want something that runs on one machine but find python too slow.

Definitely! I have continued to use Go for small utility every now and then as well. The standard library is extremely well-suited for that kind of work.

(Now using Rust more in that role as well, but mostly to get continued practice ;).)

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