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Agreed there is not much you can do about a programmer using memory in an unsafe way...so what is the point?

Censorship of opinionated entities speaking in a manner you disagree with is so popular right now how can you be wrong? The 'community' meaning my cloud/bubble/echo chamber as usual I guess? Theos take was refreshing honesty in my bubble.

How can leaked memory, pragmatically, be considered safe? The language spec definition seems useless.

Why is rust easier than C? Is it because it makes what is simple in C hard?

My hero.

All of these trap your mind in the k8s spiral arm and watch how adroit I am at building something no one would want to troubleshoot articles are hipster reminders of why I only create occasional throwaways for this site.

opaque to casual examination means that you simply cannot read the code. You would think that a statically compiled binary blob wouldn't be handled as if it was a perl script, but it is.

It's funny how everything that bell labs alums have touched has influenced computing in a way that isn't publicly acked and how the network and namespace ideas in plan9 and inferno have become foundational to cloud native infra. Pikes assertions in a couple cases are just wrong or exemplify naivete however. He is surprised by how a language designed to be opaque to casual examination, statically compiled and used in a majority of high profile cloud native applications (where the install is often download and run a go binary as part of an un-examined curl | sh pipeline) is happily used for malware? Also interesting how designers of languages who are formerly avid critics of PL become reticent and opposed to negativity as authors. Finally he touts the 'hard' problem of concurrency that GO offers an unanticipated solution for as if OpenMP hasn't been around as a functional approach since 98 for concurrent programming in the HPC and scientific domains.

This touchy-feely analytical approach to not worrying about emotional and exemplary damage resulting from not knowing any better is hard to take. The self importance of not worrying is conducive to the sloppy industry the NG works in. No one can be held responsible for not knowing what they should know because they aren't expected to know it. They are semi-functional components in a dysfunctional machine.