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Unfortunately a lot of embedded devices can't handle the size of go executables.

• randomdata 4y ago
  The gc compiler produces notoriously large executables but Go programs need not be so large. A small program compiled using the tinygo compiler can be as small as 10s of kilobytes.
  • Fnoord 4y ago
    Someone even developed a complete SOHO router in Go: Router7 [1]. [1] https://router7.org/ https://router7.org/
    • m45t3r 4y ago
      This certainly doesn't look like a embedded device though: > The reference hardware platform is the PC Engines™ apu2c4 system board. It features a 1 GHz quad core amd64 CPU, 4 GB of RAM, 3 Ethernet ports and a DB9 serial port.
      • p_l 4y ago
        "Embedded" has no relationship with size, though. And that's moderately big for "embedded" anyway.
      • detaro 4y ago
        That's an embedded device, sure. Embedded doesn't mean "microcontroller only".
        • m45t3r 4y ago
          I didn't mean to imply this. I consider most router hardware embedded, but they includes CPUs. It is just that they're CPUs that you would generally consider embedded (like a SoC). And BTW, my reply was mostly because of the context: people were talking about binary sizes for Go, but if you're using PC-like hardware you wouldn't care about binary sizes anyway (you can simply put more storage, even something like a 1GB SD Card would be way bigger than something like OpenWRT that can run with hardware as low as 8MB of Flash memory).