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croneliusyesterday at 7:24 PM1 replyview on HN

This is cool, just don't let Rob Pike see this, he will have a conniption. Glad you called out that it shouldn't be used because this is about the most magical thing I have ever seen in Go


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adonovanyesterday at 8:07 PM

The lesson of the post is that Go is compiled to machine-specific object code mapped to a non-writable text segment in an OS-specific process. What's really magical is that compilers save you from such dangerous and non-portable details.