Awesome! (IMHO)
Going for total immutability is not a best fit for Go. I was thinking like excluding packages like unsafe, reflect, executing external programs and the like. Capabilities seems unnecessarily complicated - getting used to them is not easy, like in Pony/ponylang. Thanks for the link, On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 11:23:42 PM UTC+3:30, [email protected] wrote: > > We’ve been discussing stateless packages here: > https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23267 > > Matt > > On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 1:43:05 PM UTC-6, dc0d wrote: >> >> Is there a way to identify a package as safe? >> >> Let's restrict the imported packages to built-in ones. Now assuming a >> package only imports "strings" and "net/url" can it considered as safe? >> Since it does not (can not) modify the environment (most notably executing >> code)? >> >> Of course the package still can behave in a malicious manner by (for >> example) creating too many goroutines. >> >> This came to mind when I was reading about package managers and learnt >> some problems that they have. >> > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
