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It still won't beat the deployment speed of scp executable user@host:direc/tory/ that you get with Go. I still use python for stuff that never leaves my c

It still won't beat the deployment speed of scp executable user@host:direc/tory/ that you get with Go. I still use python for stuff that never leaves my computer, but in most cases if I know I need to run it on Someone Else's Machine (or even a server of mine) I'll reach for Go instead.

sph 2y ago
I agree with you, though if you live in a Linux+podman world, you can literally scp whole containers, so at least we made some progress.
derriz 2y ago
Sure but that's not going to work across platforms, right? So not really an apples to apples comparison.
- thrwaway1985882 2y ago
  Even the most ardent of Go-haters have to be fair and admit it makes cross-compilation really nice. GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build && scp executable user@host:direc/tory/ Out of the box, no toolchains to manage.
  - theshrike79 2y ago
    This is pretty much what I do. I have a Taskfile for local compilation and running (macOS) and when I need to release I can just say `task publish` and it'll cross-compile a Linux binary and copy it to my server.
  - bb88 2y ago
    Sure, it's nice in that regard. But honestly running poetry install for python is not bad either.
    - theshrike79 2y ago
      Except in 3 years when poetry is bad for some reason and now there's a new better(?) tool again :D
- theshrike79 2y ago
  Like the sibling comment said, cross-compiling is literally setting two environment variables.
okasaki 2y ago
At the expense of absolutely massive, gargantuan, entire-OS-sized binaries. Just looking at my bin/ folder eg k9salpha - a relatively simple curses app - 56MB argocd - a cli for magaging argocd - 155MB
- anthk 2y ago
  strip --strip-all k9salpha argocd
- sph 2y ago
  It's like what, $0.01 per GB these days? I bought a 2 TB NVMe for Linux 4 years ago, on which I also game, and it's 50% full. Disk space hasn't been a serious concern in two decades.
  - pjmlp 2y ago
    Until you start paying for it on cloud deployments per GB transfer.

sph 2y ago

I agree with you, though if you live in a Linux+podman world, you can literally scp whole containers, so at least we made some progress.

derriz 2y ago

Sure but that's not going to work across platforms, right? So not really an apples to apples comparison.

thrwaway1985882 2y ago
Even the most ardent of Go-haters have to be fair and admit it makes cross-compilation really nice. GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 go build && scp executable user@host:direc/tory/ Out of the box, no toolchains to manage.
- theshrike79 2y ago
  This is pretty much what I do. I have a Taskfile for local compilation and running (macOS) and when I need to release I can just say `task publish` and it'll cross-compile a Linux binary and copy it to my server.
- bb88 2y ago
  Sure, it's nice in that regard. But honestly running poetry install for python is not bad either.
  - theshrike79 2y ago
    Except in 3 years when poetry is bad for some reason and now there's a new better(?) tool again :D
theshrike79 2y ago
Like the sibling comment said, cross-compiling is literally setting two environment variables.

okasaki 2y ago

At the expense of absolutely massive, gargantuan, entire-OS-sized binaries. Just looking at my bin/ folder eg k9salpha - a relatively simple curses app - 56MB argocd - a cli for magaging argocd - 155MB

anthk 2y ago
strip --strip-all k9salpha argocd
sph 2y ago
It's like what, $0.01 per GB these days? I bought a 2 TB NVMe for Linux 4 years ago, on which I also game, and it's 50% full. Disk space hasn't been a serious concern in two decades.
- pjmlp 2y ago
  Until you start paying for it on cloud deployments per GB transfer.