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		orochimaaru 4 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Go is portable, until it isn't So you can’t pull in c libraries built for different distributions and expect this to work. If you use pure go, things are portable. The moment you use C API, that portability doesn’t exist. This should be apparent.

jeremyjh 4 days ago [–]

My assumption was that they were using a C API just from reading the headline. I don't use Go but these sorts of problems are common to any project doing that in just about any language.

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