On: Golang at CloudFlare

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Static linking of Go code is a conscious design decision, not some artifact of toolchain immaturity. It will never change.

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You can make use of dynamic linking with gccgo, as far as I am aware.

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On a related note, using Go can one develop DLLs that can be dynamically consumed from other applications?

Or you can only produce statically linked exe's?

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Only exes at the time being. Go is the main loop and needs to have control of the execution flow for concurrency.

If you think of it, DLLs are a bit like separate programs that you communicate with trough the C call stack instead of another structured protocol. In Go you would spawn different processes and use something like protobuf to exchange messages.