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giancarlostoro
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Graceful Shutdown in Go: Practical Patterns
I had a coworker that would always say, if your program cannot cleanly handle ctrl c and a few other commands to close it, then its written poorly.
danhau
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Your coworker is correct.
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amelius
6 days ago
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Ctrl-C is reserved for copy into the clipboard ... Stopping the program instead is highly counter-intuitive and will result in angry users.
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moooo99
5 days ago
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Have you really never cancelled a program in a terminal session?
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tgv
5 days ago
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I think it was a joke. The style, clearly, almost pedantically stating an annoyance as fact, does suggest that.
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kevin_thibedeau
5 days ago
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Definitely yanking us around.
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moooo99
5 days ago
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Probably was an r/whoosh moment on my part
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