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Tooling is why Go gets its foot in the door much quicker than other languages IMHO. A single binary with no dependencies that does pretty much everything.
by kitd 4y ago
Tooling is why Go gets its foot in the door much quicker than other languages IMHO. A single binary with no dependencies that does pretty much everything.
- bombolo 4y agoI've seen go programs fail to start because they were dynamically linked to some .so file I happened to not have.
- anotherhue 4y agoYeah ‘Fully static’ requires some extra linker flags.
- layer8 4y agoThey mean the `go` binary, not Go programs in general.
- jonahx 4y agoIndeed. Also formatting decided at the language level (gofmt) and a standard library powerful enough to accomplish most business tasks, so you can avoid 3rd party dependencies entirely if you want, while still being productive.