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

[Gary E. Miller]

Yo Hal!

On Tue, 10 Jun 2025 01:17:53 -0700
Hal Murray via devel <devel at ntpsec.org> wrote:

> Gary said said:
> >> Should we give up on Go?  
> > What is there to give up on?  Is there and NTPSec go?   
> 
> There isn't any Go code in our collection, but we did put some time
> and effort into thinking about it.

Thus my oint.  No Go in NTPSec to give up on.

> I think it would be fun to learn enough about Go so that I could use
> it rather than python for writing hack programs.

Yes, that is why I wrote an example Go client for gpsd.

> (Some hacks grow
> big enough to be interesting.)  I learn much better if there are
> others also working on something similar.

Agreed.

> > Neither Go nor Rust is "safe", just a tad "safer".  
> 
> How big is a tad?

That is in the eye of the beholder.  Both are more "type safe" and
both have better "memory safety", but that leaves many classes of bugs
that can happen in either.

> Why were we considering converting everything to Go if it wasn't 
> significantly safer?

Because, at the time, it wass trendy and new.  Now we know Google is
not going to grow Go much more, and we see some ugly sides of Rsut.

IMHO, the lack of standardization of Rust, and the constant incompatible
code chrun of Rust, makes it not ready for prime time.

RGDS
GARY
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