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This feature may be prepared for building shared libraries for C. After all, Using shared libraries is popular in C world.

• giaour 11y ago
  It might also make it possible to write Node/PHP/Ruby/Python libraries in Go instead of C++. I've been looking at Rust for that use but the ability to compile Go to a C archive throws in back in the running.
  • coldtea 11y ago
    I don't think you can compile go to a C archive that runs without the runtime.
    • giaour 11y ago
      Presumably the necessary parts of the go runtime would be embedded in the C archive (or a DLL'd libgo.a file); how else would you be able to use the C archive in a C application?
      • coldtea 11y ago
        Not sure how this would work, will have to update to 1.5 and see it.
  • tracker1 11y ago
    That was one of my first thoughts there as well... I like the idea of writing lower-level node modules in Go over C/C++ myself.
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