On: Running the "Reflections on Trusting Trust" Compil...

[earthboundkid]

Usually rsc’s blog posts are intimations of what he’s going to propose next for Go. Um, er, oh boy.

[mseepgood → earthboundkid]

It is indirectly about the new reproducible Go toolchain builds introduced with Go 1.21. https://go.dev/blog/rebuild

[dolmen → earthboundkid]

In this case, I think it is more about an Easter egg in the Go compiler.

I'm expecting we will finally discover a backdoor propagated since at least Go 1.4.

[kunley → earthboundkid]

Haha, good one ;)