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0 pointsoooyay4mo ago0 comments

Go definitely supports dynamic libraries

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I don’t mean Dylibs like you find on macOS, I mean loading a binary lib from an arbitrary directory and being able to use it, without compiling it into the program.

It’s been some time since I looked into this so I wanted to be clear on what I meant. I’d be elated to be wrong though

Groxx4mo ago

Both handle that just fine. Go does this via cgo, and has for over a decade.

You do still need to write the interfacing code, but that's true for all languages.

vlovich1234mo ago

Then by that argument Rust also supports dynamic linking. Actually it’s even better because that approach sacrifices less performance (if done well) than cgo inherently implies.

josephg4mo ago

Well, Rust does support dynamic linking. It just doesn’t (yet) offer a stable ABI. So you need to either use C FFI over the dynamic linking bridge, or make sure all linked libraries are compiled with the same version of the rust compiler.

Groxx4mo ago

It was built to do that, yes

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no_wizard4mo ago

I don’t mean Dylibs like you find on macOS, I mean loading a binary lib from an arbitrary directory and being able to use it, without compiling it into the program.

It’s been some time since I looked into this so I wanted to be clear on what I meant. I’d be elated to be wrong though

Groxx4mo ago

Both handle that just fine. Go does this via cgo, and has for over a decade.

You do still need to write the interfacing code, but that's true for all languages.

vlovich1234mo ago

Then by that argument Rust also supports dynamic linking. Actually it’s even better because that approach sacrifices less performance (if done well) than cgo inherently implies.

josephg4mo ago

Groxx4mo ago

It was built to do that, yes

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