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joshuak | 3 years ago

Wait, what prior programming language is compiled, can be statically linked, and has an https implementation in it's standard library?

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jolmg|3 years ago

fwsgonzo never said anything about it being in the standard library.

robotresearcher|3 years ago

The convenience of building network clients in Go is heavily implied. Strictly you can say that assembly code can make standalone binary HTTPS endpoints, but that would be a bit silly.

To be sure you might write such a program in assembly, but you’d be doing it for fun or aesthetics. No engineering manager would commission such a thing.

Though of course this is inviting the trading maniacs to tell stories of hyper optimized clients…

joshuak|3 years ago

Well that's not on him man. You are the one calling him out for being unaware of static linking, when you don't even seem to understand the full set of pros he listed in his first sentience.