[HN Gopher] Go Assembly Mutation Testing
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       Go Assembly Mutation Testing
        
       Author : Metalnem
       Score  : 31 points
       Date   : 2025-07-31 17:23 UTC (5 hours ago)
        
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       | jasonthorsness wrote:
       | Code coverage not being meaningful because all instructions are
       | always executed in order to make the crypto function constant-
       | time is certainly a niche issue! It's great to see such rigor
       | going into Go.
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       | Not assembly, but one of the side benefits of Go's infamously
       | verbose error handling is that code coverage generally tells you
       | when you've never tested error cases. It gives a more fine-
       | grained picture than languages using exception handling (unless
       | you try/catch at a similarly fine-grained level).
        
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