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So tomorrow if the Go team doubled your binary size by adding "darkest bytes" area with garbage in it your response would be to question the users's inability to be ok with it and not the Go team's choice and reasoning?

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If you think those are the alternatives, I don't think the rest of this discussion will go well.

Feels like the Go team could just...expose a flag?

Which they are loathe to do

Flags are juvenile. When I was young I used to play with flags. Now I set environment variables.

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