Only in the context of imported packages and only in terms of causing 
side-effects "outside" the context of current executable binary.


On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 11:19:13 PM UTC+3:30, Paul Brousseau wrote:
>
> I think that might depend on what qualities you define as "safe"?
>
>
> On Monday, February 12, 2018 at 12:43:05 PM UTC-7, dc0d wrote:
>>
>> Is there a way to identify a package as safe?
>>
>> Let's restrict the imported packages to built-in ones. Now assuming a 
>> package only imports "strings" and "net/url" can it considered as safe? 
>> Since it does not (can not) modify the environment (most notably executing 
>> code)?
>>
>> Of course the package still can behave in a malicious manner by (for 
>> example) creating too many goroutines.
>>
>> This came to mind when I was reading about package managers and learnt 
>> some problems that they have. 
>>
>

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