Comment by yjftsjthsd-h

16 hours ago

So, these are feature flags by any name, right?

No. Feature flags are a mechanism for enabling some of the experiments. But what’s being discussed here are the features themselves.

  • Hm, that's interesting; chrome://flags does seem to be titled "Experiments"... After, of course, you type "flags" into the address bar to get there. I guess I can see a distinction there, but it's pretty subtle.

    • This has nothing to do with Chrome.

      This is Go (golang). It’s not even the same language used in the development of Chrome.

      And the reason I make the distinction between feature flags and this is because some of the “experiments” discussed in the article are new packages / modules. So you’re not changing compiler behaviour via a flag or env var. You’re just importing a new package that isn’t yet considered stable.

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