Comment by hnlmorg
15 hours ago
No. Feature flags are a mechanism for enabling some of the experiments. But what’s being discussed here are the features themselves.
15 hours ago
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.
I think the way Google handles flags/experiments in one project (Chrome) is very relevant to interpreting the language around how they handle flags/experiments in another project (Go).
And I'm pretty sure that their example is that importing "encoding/json/v2" doesn't work until you tell the compiler to enable it via environment variable.