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Re:Twelve Years of Go by the_gipsy on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:54PM (#29179725)
> With Go, you can just emit a binary for every supported platform dump the binary somewhere, and everyone in the world can download it and run it.

Does this hold true? Don’t you need to switch to musl or something, to build a static binary?

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Re:Twelve Years of Go by mdaniel on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:09PM (#29180847)
I believe you may be thinking of `CGO_ENABLED=1` which causes golang binaries to fail to run on musl distros

So yes, your comment is probably right, but I get the impression the grandparent was a tiny bit tongue in cheek anyway

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Re:Twelve Years of Go by moondev on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @06:23PM (#29182338)
It's actually easier now. On your target platform just "go run <import path>
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