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Re:Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and vi... by jeroenhd on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:07AM (#34775314)
That's true. However, because of the design of go tooling, you still call the same command line method to get the tool to compile your code.

This leads to the compiler having access to the internet and possibly exercising its access. In a perfect world of separated concerns the compiler binary wouldn't have any networking code at all, necessitating a go-get before calling go-build.

I understand why the Golang team decided to go with this approach, but it does have side effects that people coming from different tooling (say, C) wouldn't expect.

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Re:Go claims telemetry objectors arguing in bad faith and vi... by mindslight on Monday February 13, 2023 @11:29AM (#34775659)
Sounds like a great reason to adopt Nix! Run each tool in a sandbox appropriate to what it's supposed to do, and store the entirety of the inputs and outputs so they can be audited if the need arises.
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