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That's a fair point. Go was not designed to be used to write libraries-- so much so that the language didn't even have support for dynamically loaded libraries for a very long time. (I'm not sure if they ever implemented their DLL proposal that was out there for a long time... I'm too lazy to check now.) The idea was you would write AWS-style microservices rather than using libraries.

In general, "turducken" designs are awkward and difficult to debug. Ask someone what a joy debugging or writing JNI or CPython code is some time. People often prefer "pure" libraries even when the performance is a little worse. C is the king of libraries awkwardly jammed into existing programming languages, but it's a dubious crown to have. Rust is trying to break into this space, but I'm not sure whether it's really a space worth being in.



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