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I agree with Jonathan on everything here, with the additional caveat that the Go runtime is particularly heavy, and thus not really suitable for low-level system software (which should use resources sparingly, leaving them for production applications). So I don't think Go is a suitable language choice for a supervisor in the first place; and apart from the language choice, all of Jonathan's criticism applys.

I strongly recommend the author of immortal to join the supervision mailing-list on skarnet.org, follow the discussions there and ask questions if needed. We have about 19 years of experience with process supervision, there has been a lot of prior art and successive refinements, and we hold extensive knowledge about what constitutes good practice. If someone aims to design a process supervisor, even if it's a completely new take with a specific spin, it would be a mistake not to tap into our pool of experience. We always want users to benefit from good, rigorous software.

parent skarnet 9 years ago

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