telemetry in the Go toolchain · golang/go · Discussion #58409
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Feb 10 5pm US Eastern: Thanks for the lively discussion everyone. It has given me plenty to think about. We are starting to go in circles, and actually new comments are increasingly rare, so I've l...

Are you a Go developer? Are you worried that Google is not collecting enough data about you? Well fear not, it appears that opt-out telemetry is about to be added to the Go toolchain!

  • whou@lemmy.ml
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    2 years ago

    Programming in Go is a blast. I love using the language and the ecosystem.

    But let me tell you, Google never made it any more enjoyable to use Go or to be part of its community. Quite the opposite.

    I wonder if we are somewhat close to straight up forking it or trying to create a different compiler, just so the community doesn’t have to put up with Google anymore, or at least we begin to actually be heard.