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Is there any reason why so many of those tools are written in Go? Is it because of a stdlib or just accidental?

keyle 2y ago
Go gets it done and for years to come.
aeadio 2y ago
Could be cultural. Go has a lot of exposure in the DevOps / cloud infrastructure space. Lots of stuff like k8s and Terraform (and its providers) are written in Go, and it competes with Python in popularity for internal tooling.
- bloopernova 2y ago
  Yeah exactly. I wrote one orchestration tool in Python, another department used Go. Right now I'm using nodejs simply because that's the main project language and all the developers can help out :)
SushiHippie 2y ago
In this case it seems like the creator of this tool already knew golang so he used it. From the readme: > It's totally inspired from dog [0] which is written in Rust. I wanted to add some features to it but since I don't know Rust, I found it as a nice opportunity to experiment with writing a DNS Client from scratch in Go myself. Hence the name dog +go => doggo. [0] https://github.com/ogham/dog https://github.com/ogham/dog
moffkalast 2y ago
So the name can be a pun, of course.
lynndotpy 2y ago
Go is produces (mostly) statically compiled binaries by default. No runtime, no interpreter, no dependencies. Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, etc. can't say the same.
- audiodude 2y ago
  In my experience, I've always had to install Go and it's ecosystem to `go install foo` for Go programs to work. Is anyone distributing binaries?
  - arccy 2y ago
    you'll usually find binaries in github releases (see the assets section: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/releases https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/releases )
    - audiodude 2y ago
      Oh duh, thanks!
- sadops 2y ago
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- cromka 2y ago
  Correct me if I am wrong. but this is the feature of C#/.Net as well as of recent versions.
  - ch3 2y ago
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  - neonsunset 2y ago
    dotnet publish -o . -p:PublishAot=true :) To be fair, I do not think the author understands what static binaries are and why they may or may not want them, and how what Go does differs to what C/C++ toolchain does. I’d be very surprised if they do, being a Go developer. Next time they will learn another excuse to promote their language.
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Go gets it done and for years to come.

Could be cultural. Go has a lot of exposure in the DevOps / cloud infrastructure space. Lots of stuff like k8s and Terraform (and its providers) are written in Go, and it competes with Python in popularity for internal tooling.

bloopernova 2y ago
Yeah exactly. I wrote one orchestration tool in Python, another department used Go. Right now I'm using nodejs simply because that's the main project language and all the developers can help out :)

SushiHippie 2y ago

In this case it seems like the creator of this tool already knew golang so he used it. From the readme: > It's totally inspired from dog [0] which is written in Rust. I wanted to add some features to it but since I don't know Rust, I found it as a nice opportunity to experiment with writing a DNS Client from scratch in Go myself. Hence the name dog +go => doggo. [0] https://github.com/ogham/dog https://github.com/ogham/dog

moffkalast 2y ago

So the name can be a pun, of course.

lynndotpy 2y ago

Go is produces (mostly) statically compiled binaries by default. No runtime, no interpreter, no dependencies. Python, Java, JavaScript, C#, etc. can't say the same.

audiodude 2y ago
In my experience, I've always had to install Go and it's ecosystem to `go install foo` for Go programs to work. Is anyone distributing binaries?
- arccy 2y ago
  you'll usually find binaries in github releases (see the assets section: https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/releases https://github.com/mr-karan/doggo/releases )
  - audiodude 2y ago
    Oh duh, thanks!
sadops 2y ago
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cromka 2y ago
Correct me if I am wrong. but this is the feature of C#/.Net as well as of recent versions.
- ch3 2y ago
  [dead]
- neonsunset 2y ago
  dotnet publish -o . -p:PublishAot=true :) To be fair, I do not think the author understands what static binaries are and why they may or may not want them, and how what Go does differs to what C/C++ toolchain does. I’d be very surprised if they do, being a Go developer. Next time they will learn another excuse to promote their language.
  - deleted 2y ago
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