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Author: T.J. Duchene
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Subject: Re: [Dng] system scriptinng language.
Being something of a pessimist, I would not use any of these new languages:
Go, Rust or whatever. Why? They are not stable or standardized by a third
party like the ISO/Ecma. There are precious few legal guarantees that you
would find yourself on the end of a patent lawsuit after developing the
"next big thing".



On Sat, Dec 6, 2014 at 11:45 AM, Matteo Panella <m.panella@???>
wrote:

> On 06/12/2014 04:17, Vlad wrote:
>
> > We should also consider Go and Julia IMO.
>
> NAK.
>
> Even though I like Go (and I like it a lot), I wouldn't ever use it for
> tasks which are best handled by a scripting language.
>
> Also, there are some pain points on how to handle security updates for
> Go: right now, when a security issue pops up in the stdlib or a 3rd
> party package, everything that depends on the updated package MUST be
> rebuilt and pushed as a security update, not just the package itself.
>
> And guess what? The worst case scenario is a security issue in the
> stdlib itself (which already happened multiple times - see the
> crypto/tls package).
>
> Regards,
> --
> Matteo Panella
>
>
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