Do we run on any systems that don't support Go? Rust?

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Mon, 09 Jun 2025 13:32:49 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Gary said:
> > Yes, when we expected Go to get more traction that it has gotten.
> > Now even Google is not pushing it.   
> 
> Who is taking care of Go now?

Google, sort of.  They are not responding to most external bug reports.

> Should we give up on Go?

What is there to give up on?  Is there and NTPSec go?

> Are there utilites or such that we could write in Go that don't need
> to run on every platform?

IMHO, no.

> What's the measure of our success?
>   Number of machines running our ntpd?
>   Number of OS/Distros/architectures we run on?
>   An example of an interesting project in a safe language?
>   How much fun we are having?

IMHO, the last one.

Neither Go nor Rust is "safe", just a tad "safer".

RGDS
GARY
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