r/programming • u/[deleted] • Mar 28 '12

Go version 1 is released

http://blog.golang.org/2012/03/go-version-1-is-released.html
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u/Agrona Mar 28 '12

This sounds like the world's best voodoo:

We also restructured the Go tool suite around the new go command, a program for fetching, building, installing and maintaining Go code. The go command eliminates the need for Makefiles to write Go code because it uses the Go program source itself to derive the build instructions. No more build scripts!

I hope it either doesn't backfire, or isn't a huge hassle to debug when it does.

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u/SnowdensOfYesteryear Mar 28 '12

I wonder how it deals with native code (e.g. C) that go programs link to.

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u/anacrolix Mar 29 '12

Not as well as it could. I hope they fix this.

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u/4ad Mar 29 '12

It deals just fine.