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Re:Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler by earthboundkid on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @10:37PM (#38021052)
Usually rsc’s blog posts are intimations of what he’s going to propose next for Go. Um, er, oh boy.
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Re:Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler by mseepgood on Thursday October 26, 2023 @02:44AM (#38022472)
It is indirectly about the new reproducible Go toolchain builds introduced with Go 1.21. https://go.dev/blog/rebuild
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Re:Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler by kunley on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:13AM (#38023414)
Haha, good one ;)
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Re:Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compiler by dolmen on Friday November 03, 2023 @03:58AM (#38125762)
In this case, I think it is more about an Easter egg in the Go compiler.

I'm expecting we will finally discover a backdoor propagated since at least Go 1.4.

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