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370 points adriangrigore | 3 comments | | HN request time: 0.57s | source
1. 0xbadcafebee ◴[] No.43558212[source]
I like the premise of the joke, but then as the explanation ran on... I suddenly became depressed. So much broken stuff, so much complexity.... to, what, make a network tunnel? If all this extra work was the joke, that would be funny.
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2. rsc ◴[] No.43558516[source]
We had to do some Plan 9 work, which makes sense when doing something new, but the actual Tailscale implementation is far _less_ work than for other Unixes.
3. badc0ffee ◴[] No.43558711[source]
It sounds like the Go compiler is better after this effort - fewer Plan 9 special cases in the code.