alt Hacker NewsIt's always fascinating to dive into the internals of the Go linker. One aspect I've found particularly clever is how it handles static linking by default, bundling everything into a single binary
It's always fascinating to dive into the internals of the Go linker. One aspect I've found particularly clever is how it handles static linking by default, bundling everything into a single binary
The Go tooling is heavily based on the Inferno tool chain which was based off the highly portable Plan 9 tool chain. Plan 9 by default is statically linked as dynamic libraries are supported but not implemented anywhere. The idea was that librarys should instead be implemented as a service that runs local or on a remote machine.