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Juha Autero
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You Can't Write Carrier Grade Software in Go

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because it doesn't have assert.

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Curtis Fenner •

The lack of assert is definitely the strangest omission in Go to me. They say they didn't include it because they were afraid programmers would use it instead of handling error cases, but I have literally never seen code and thought this code has too many asserts. Most code needs a whole lot more asserts, really.

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Juha Autero •

The joke is that I've seen lot of "carrier grade" code that is basically

ptr=malloc(BYTES);
assert(ptr);
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Curtis Fenner •

well, tripping an assert is at least better than memory corruption ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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