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Re:Tk9.0: CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go by cle on Thursday November 28, 2024 @06:28PM (#42269383)
This is using purego which is still using FFI, it is dynamically linking the C libs so you still have the same shared library issues. You don’t have to setup a C compiler toolchain though which is nice.
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Re:Tk9.0: CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go by Onavo on Friday November 29, 2024 @12:18AM (#42271048)
Why don't they just compile to C to Go like modern c does for SQLite?
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Re:Tk9.0: CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go by masklinn on Friday November 29, 2024 @01:09AM (#42271294)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42271142
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Re:Tk9.0: CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go by Onavo on Friday November 29, 2024 @12:34PM (#42275445)
I mean why don't they do it for the source library too? There are very few operations in C that can't be done in Go (mostly inline assembly and some pointer manipulation) under a standard userland assumption.
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