Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

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Post by fabioberger123 » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 3:19 PM UTC

Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go
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Re: Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

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Post by eatonphil » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 3:47 PM UTC

I was hoping someone finally figured out a good way to start the Go runtime from node/c/c++. Once this feature exists it will be trivial to write Go extensions/modules for Chrome, Apache, Node, MySQL, you name it.

Re: Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

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Post by aikah » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 4:03 PM UTC

TLDR;

Go -> Gopherjs -> Javascript running like any other Chrome extension. Go isn't running in Chrome extensions as "native client" here.

Re: Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

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Post by tkubacki » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 4:44 PM UTC

nice, but it's way easier in Dart and if you want to develop Chrome Packaged App there is even project template for this in DartEditor

Re: Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

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Post by shwetank » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 5:39 PM UTC

This more or less should work with Opera extensions too.

Re: Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

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Post by mehrzad » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 5:48 PM UTC

This github naming convention (that I see often with Go code) of using the product target name as the project name is starting to annoy me.

Also does anyone have any idea why Gopherjs would be better than Clojurescript, Typescript, Coffeescript, etc?

Re: Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

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Post by wtf_is_up » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 6:04 PM UTC

mehrzad wrote: post #6

This github naming convention (that I see often with Go code) of using the product target name as the project name is starting to annoy me. Also does anyone have any idea why Gopherjs would be better than Clojurescript, Typescript, Coffeescript, etc?

It's better than those, if you already know Go.

Re: Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

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Post by agox » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 6:10 PM UTC

First thought: "I swear to god if this involves compiling Go to Javascript..."

Re: Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

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Post by sergiotapia » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 6:19 PM UTC

agox wrote: post #8

First thought: "I swear to god if this involves compiling Go to Javascript..."

GopherScript's got you covered baby!

Re: Show HN: Write Chrome Extensions in Go

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Post by tracker1 » Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 6:57 PM UTC

aikah wrote: post #3

TLDR; Go -> Gopherjs -> Javascript running like any other Chrome extension. Go isn't running in Chrome extensions as "native client" here.

Agreed... though it's a nice reminder that GopherJS is still an option... I was actually hoping that it was some sort of NaCl option for Go.

That said, I'd also love to see the ability to write native node.js modules via go. Channels would be a pretty natural interface for native modules from node via go. And could probably do something via named-pipes, but a transparent integration would be so cool.