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If I remember correctly Go does use libc by default if you link with net package (you can set CGO_ENABLED=0 to disable it but then you won’t get NSS). On openbs

If I remember correctly Go does use libc by default if you link with net package (you can set CGO_ENABLED=0 to disable it but then you won’t get NSS). On openbsd it also switched back to using libc

m0zg 5y ago
TIL. Looks like you're right. I ran ldd on several Go binaries I have in my ~/bin (some of which do use networking), and while most of them did not depend on libc, one did. There goes yet another reason to prefer Go.
wbl 5y ago
You can also use a net specific build tag.