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> written in Go I am not sure what this line is adding. It is supposed to add "runtime support". Is this doing some language specific libraries? But then they
by harikb 7y ago
> written in Go
I am not sure what this line is adding. It is supposed to add "runtime support". Is this doing some language specific libraries? But then they do support various other languages! Why is Go special? or that all language support is somehow made in Go? Binaries made in Go? May be that should have been left out for clarity. This is very confusing for me.
- jacques_chester 7y agoIt may be an insider perspective. Early buildpacks were dominantly written in Ruby or Bash (one major one was written in Python). The Bash ones were awful. There was a generation after these, but before Paketo, which were written in Golang. Consolidating the various codebases was a big step forward and left a deep impression.
- dwillist 7y agoHey, I'm one of the engineers working on this project, and this is exactly why. Golang is not 'special' just the tool we use to set up your application configuration & dependencies. We left the Golang reference on the homepage to try and avoid the 'surprise' factor of realizing the Paketo Buildpacks are not written using the language support they provide.
- ngngngng 7y agoNitpick, but it's not Golang. It's Go.