LOL For what it's worth, my suggestion would be to evaluate based on quality of the results and not the source. However, this is Voat and that suggestion usually goes over about as well as a fart in church.
But I don't trust them. I don't believe they are honest. Using their language requires some closed source libraries in order to do anything of true scaled utility.
Hmm... The bit about closed source libraries is new to me. Got anything I can read up on that? I've only read along and downloaded it. I haven't even done a Hello World with it yet. So, I'm entirely unable to offer a qualified opinion. Closed source libraries, as the main, is an immediate turn off. That's entirely new information, to me at least.
I wasn't really talking about that though. I was talking about all the services it interfaces/leverages. I believe you can avoid it, but it requires a lot of work.
OTOH, Python is completely Open Source and not provided by WAPO ABC Corp.
Right. You really can't. You could hire an army of coders and do pretty good with ARCH Linux and Python.
The difference is that ABC Corp is a monolithic, for-profit entity who has already been caught numerous times slanting the truth or presenting outright lies via their search engine and other channels.
The other difference is that the schmuck who partly founded Google, Eric Schmidt, was completely played and had his mind controlled by very persuasive, very dirty and disgusting people.
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0 u/DapperFrygar 16 Feb 2018 20:49
I'm so torn on Golang. I mean on one hand it is so elegant, so user friendly, and works so well.
On the other hand, Google is the fucking Devil.
1 u/TheBuddha [OP] 16 Feb 2018 20:50
LOL For what it's worth, my suggestion would be to evaluate based on quality of the results and not the source. However, this is Voat and that suggestion usually goes over about as well as a fart in church.
0 u/DapperFrygar 16 Feb 2018 20:53
But I don't trust them. I don't believe they are honest. Using their language requires some closed source libraries in order to do anything of true scaled utility.
I don't like liars.
0 u/TheBuddha [OP] 16 Feb 2018 20:59
Hmm... The bit about closed source libraries is new to me. Got anything I can read up on that? I've only read along and downloaded it. I haven't even done a Hello World with it yet. So, I'm entirely unable to offer a qualified opinion. Closed source libraries, as the main, is an immediate turn off. That's entirely new information, to me at least.
0 u/DapperFrygar 16 Feb 2018 21:03
q: what do you compile the compiler with?
https://golang.org/cmd/compile/
I wasn't really talking about that though. I was talking about all the services it interfaces/leverages. I believe you can avoid it, but it requires a lot of work.
OTOH, Python is completely Open Source and not provided by WAPO ABC Corp.
0 u/TheBuddha [OP] 16 Feb 2018 21:18
Yeah, it looks like the source for the compiler is available?
0 u/DapperFrygar 16 Feb 2018 22:38
Yes. How many people using Golang do you think compile their own compiler?
And what do they use to compile it?
At the head of every snake is an answer.
0 u/TheBuddha [OP] 16 Feb 2018 22:49
LOL if that's the case, then you can't trust any compiled language. I think that was first posed in the sixties.
0 u/DapperFrygar 16 Feb 2018 22:53
Right. You really can't. You could hire an army of coders and do pretty good with ARCH Linux and Python.
The difference is that ABC Corp is a monolithic, for-profit entity who has already been caught numerous times slanting the truth or presenting outright lies via their search engine and other channels.
The other difference is that the schmuck who partly founded Google, Eric Schmidt, was completely played and had his mind controlled by very persuasive, very dirty and disgusting people.
0 u/DapperFrygar 16 Feb 2018 22:43
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting
0 u/DapperFrygar 16 Feb 2018 22:48
I'm gonna backtrack a little and assume it is relatively safe since 1.5.
https://blog.altoros.com/golang-internals-part-2-diving-into-the-go-compiler.html
But TBH, I will never trust Google or the CIA again.