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Arthur T Knackerbracket has found the following story:
GO binaries are weird, or at least, that is where this all started out. While delving into some Linux malware named Rex, I came to the realization that I might need to understand more than I wanted to. Just the prior week I had been reversing Linux Lady which was also written in GO, however it was not a stripped binary so it was pretty easy. Clearly the binary was rather large, many extra methods I didn't care about - though I really just didn't understand why. To be honest - I still haven't fully dug into the Golang code and have yet to really write much code in Go, so take this information at face value as some of it might be incorrect; this is just my experience while reversing some ELF Go binaries! If you don't want to read the whole page, or scroll to the bottom to get a link to the full repo, just go here.
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(Score: 2) by RamiK on Tuesday December 20 2016, @05:47AM
While Apple bashing is desirable and appreciated under most circumstances, many of Go's lead team are ex Bell Labs employees that prefer developing under OSX since that's the most successful direct Unix descendant available for desktops on the market.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @07:14AM
And yet macOS is descended from BSD. If it's Bell Labs nostalgia they want, shouldn't they be pining for System V.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 20 2016, @09:23AM
> OSX
Why do macfags call it like that? They usually respect everything about Apple's marketing, like using "logic board" instead of motherboard.
However, Apple never used it. It was Mac OS X, then OS X for a very short while (they caved to macfags somewhat), then macOS.