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0 pointsmirashii3y ago0 comments

> Nah, rust still depends on libc at runtime which is a pain.

It does in general, though I don't really think this is a big pain or blocker in the general case, there are very version requirements around libc.

> Go doesn't have this problem afaik as it has its own stdlib and runtime.

That's also true, but it's not really a pure win. Choosing not to use a battletested libc has led to a variety of subtle and difficult to diagnose bugs over the years, e.g. https://marcan.st/2017/12/debugging-an-evil-go-runtime-bug/

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jrockway3y ago

I think it's a pure win. Writing your program in 1 language instead of 2 is worth one simple misunderstanding of vDSO.

Patrickmi3y ago

This is obviously a trade off, it’s not a bug there’re certain things one must overcome “with time”, even if Go starts using libc am pretty sure the Go team will have their own libc which makes no difference unless it deals with the problem Cgo have

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jrockway3y ago

I think it's a pure win. Writing your program in 1 language instead of 2 is worth one simple misunderstanding of vDSO.

Patrickmi3y ago

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