Which is a non starter for businesses that don't ship source code.

ncruces · on Sept 17, 2023

Businesses that want to sell libraries without a source code license can ship APIs.

palata · on Sept 19, 2023

Not sure I understand what you mean here. How do I ship the API of my library without shipping the library?

pjmlp · on Sept 18, 2023

Sure, if they don't care about performance.

lakomen · on Sept 17, 2023

https://pkg.go.dev/plugin

pjmlp · on Sept 18, 2023

Not only it doesn't work in all platforms, it uses a bare bones C API with unsafe code, and it hasn't been removed yet due to backwards compatibility, as Russ Cox already expressed his opinion that plugin was a mistake from his point of view.

mdaniel · on Sept 17, 2023

> Plugins are currently supported only on Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS, making them unsuitable for applications intended to be portable.

uh-huh

but, in all seriousness: I wonder why that is? I struggle to think of a technical reason that go would be unable to load and invoke a .dll even if one had to name it .so https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.21.1/src/plugin/plugin...