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Dear Mark, >> Dart includes tracking in the *compiler*! > > Do you have a reference? I couldn't find anything on this topic with a > quick search I can't say for sure whether it does actually have tracking code in the compiler (there is a lot code to look through!), but what I can confirm is that, upon starting Dart for the first time, it requires you to agree to a privacy policy that allows Google to collect such information. They can already do data collection in Go, as they control the main package metadata proxy[1], but in that case, it definitely does do tracking by default and I can definitely turn it off! Debian do this for a different reason than for privacy; they disable the metadata proxy to be sure that their packages build reproducibly without the help of external services. I do feel somewhat uncomfortable with being led to accept Google's privacy policy to use Dart though - this attitude towards developers has somewhat put me off Dart/Flutter for now, although I am certainly impressed by Flutter as a user interface framework. However, both Dart and Go are entirely open source, so any such tracking facility would hopefully be removed in forks or distributions if it was found (as has happened with Visual Studio Code, which has been forked into a project called VSCodium). Best wishes, Sebastian [1]: https://golang.org/ref/mod#private-module-privacy -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG https://mailman.dcglug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq