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The portability story for Go is awful. I've blogged about this before: https://blog.habets.se/2022/02/Go-programs-are-not-portable.... It's yet another example of Go authors just implementing the least-effort without even a slight thought to what it would mean down the line, creating a huge liability/debt forever in the language.
I can't even begin to comprehend the thought process here.
The portability story for Go is awful. I've blogged about this before: https://blog.habets.se/2022/02/Go-programs-are-not-portable.... It's yet another example of Go authors just implementing the least-effort without even a slight thought to what it would mean down the line, creating a huge liability/debt forever in the language.
You expect Go to magically make systemd journaling exist in macOS? I can't even begin to comprehend the thought process here.
I encourage you to elaborate on how you think that's connected, and not make a strawman argument. You may have not done so deliberately, but if you can't begin to comprehend that I would mean what you said, then you could give me the benefit of doubt and maybe entertain the idea that I did not.
Edit: In my blog post I give the example of getpwnam_r. One should not check for if the OS is Solaris in a given version range, but if getpwnam_r is one or the other type.
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You expect Go to magically make systemd journaling exist in macOS? I can't even begin to comprehend the thought process here.
I can't even begin to comprehend how you got from here to there. I encourage you to elaborate on how you think that's connected, and not make a strawman argument. You may have not done so deliberately, but if you can't begin to comprehend that I would mean what you said, then you could give me the benefit of doubt and maybe entertain the idea that I did not. Edit: In my blog post I give the example of getpwnam_r. One…
Perhaps it's about managing expectations.
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I can't even begin to comprehend how you got from here to there. I encourage you to elaborate on how you think that's connected, and not make a strawman argument. You may have not done so deliberately, but if you can't begin to comprehend that I would mean what you said, then you could give me the benefit of doubt and maybe entertain the idea that I did not. Edit: In my blog post I give the example of getpwnam_r. One…
No language is going to do that for you. And I don't think Go promissed otherwise. Perhaps it's about managing expectations.
"Language", no. But Go's build comments are not really part of the language proper.
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It only works in a dynamically-linked binary, because the dynamic linker needs to be loaded.
That makes sense. Some digging turns up some workarounds; the best I found was https://github.com/jart/cosmopolitan/releases/tag/3.1
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Depends how much you care about the size and security footprint of your container images.
Static linking doesn't solve security issues either.
But what I said was "reduced security footprint", considering the trade offs between a single statically linked binary and a full (or even cut down) Linux distribution.
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I use `-ldflags '-extldflags "-static"` as well. From the .go file, you just do `// #cgo LDFLAGS: -L. -lfoo`. You definitely do not need Alpine Linux for this. I have done this on Arch Linux. I believe I did not even need musl libc for this, but I potentially could have used it. I did not think I was doing something revolutionary! In fact, let me show you a snippet of my build script: # Build the Go project with the…
I use alpine for this [1] reason, but I will admit that this is a premature-optimization. I haven’t actually ran into the problem myself. —— Your code is great, I do basically the same thing (great minds think alike!). The only thing I want to add is that cgo supports pkg-config directly [2] via // #cgo pkg-config: $lib So you don’t have to pass in linker flags manually. It’s incredibly convenient. [1] https://stacko…