Go Hacker. Mistake maker. (he/him)
Joined March 2009
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2024 resolution to stop posting here still in effect but updating forwarding address.
Now at bsky.app/profile/swtch.com
I'd been using russcox, but it looks like after the rename bluesky let someone else take it!
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Russ Cox retweeted
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"Fifty Years of Open Source Software Supply-Chain Security," by @_rsc (@Google), says industry's longtime goal of #software #reuse is now very real. bit.ly/46gAf72
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Breaking my Twitter silence because @junyer has passed away, and this is the site where he was most active. I know we had at least a few followers in common. There is a public memorial page of sorts at github.com/google/re2/issues….
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2024 resolution is to stop posting here.
Now at hachyderm.io/@rsc.
Perhaps also bsky.app/profile/russcox.bsk….
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My GopherCon 2023 talk (re-recorded): “Go Changes” #golang
youtube.com/watch?v=BNmxtp26…
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My (re-recorded) GopherCon Australia 2023 talk: “Go Testing By Example” #golang
youtube.com/watch?v=X4rxi9jS…
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My ACM SCORED 2023 talk: “Open Source Supply Chain Security at Google” #scored23
research.swtch.com/acmscored
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Wirth and Gutknecht did this–documented code for a full system–with Project Oberon, published as a hardcover book in 1992 and recently updated as a free PDF: people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Pro…
Like Knuth’s books, it’s fascinating to flip through and (for me) hard to read cover-to-cover.
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In replies, @DougMerritt pointed out that a better link is to people.inf.ethz.ch/wirth/Pro……, which has all 3 PDFs and apparently running code.
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What TikTok-to-Twitter bot has been posting tweets with Go package fmt errors in them for the past year without any of its users caring?
x.com/search?q="EXTRA st…
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People who want reproducibility independent of C toolchain can disable cgo and use pure Go net. But if a system has custom .so files listed in /etc/nsswitch.conf, net must use cgo to run them. In general we can't predict that, so using cgo is conservative but correct.
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Also posted to hachyderm.io/@rsc/1107311249…
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“Storing Data in Control Flow”
research.swtch.com/pcdata
(In case anyone is still here...)
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same tbh
8 Jun 2023
sometimes i wonder what am i doing with my life. the answer, frequently, is thinking about regular expressions
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Russ Cox retweeted
Russ Cox @_rsc, co-creator of Go shares creating Go and the early days of the language on this week's DevTools Podcast:
console.dev/podcast/s04e03-c…
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Russ Cox retweeted
11 May 2023
Really enjoyed this conversation with @_rsc, co-creator of Go. Russ is one of my favorite programming language experts out there!
11 May 2023
I write @golang most days, so it was fun to have @_rsc on the @consoledotdev podcast to chat with @jeanqasaur and me about the origins of the language, running a large open source project, and principles of language design!
console.dev/podcast/s04e03-c…
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