The GitHub Rails app did link against libmysql originally, via the Ruby bindings. This turned out to be a source of endless bugs, especially in dev envs, so in

The GitHub Rails app did link against libmysql originally, via the Ruby bindings. This turned out to be a source of endless bugs, especially in dev envs, so in 2015 Brian Lopez and I built a new client library for the Rails app: https://github.blog/2022-08-25-introducing-trilogy-a-new-database-adapter-for-ruby-on-rails/ https://github.blog/2022-08-25-introducing-trilogy-a-new-dat... This article however is about Go, where linking to C libraries is often not the best approach, so the situation is a little different.