[discuss] status of Golang

[discuss] status of Golang

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

Hi folks,

I'm thinking about using golang in my xorg-testing-ground tool.
But of course that would be a bad idea, if golang doens't work well
on OI yet (would defeat the whole purpose of my tool)

So, I'd like to know your oppisions on Golang on OI.
Is there already a practically usable port ? Or is there some offical
upstream build that can be easily installed and reliable ?


thx
--mtx

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Re: [discuss] status of Golang

[Robert Mustacchi]

On 1/31/25 08:16, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm thinking about using golang in my xorg-testing-ground tool.
> But of course that would be a bad idea, if golang doens't work well
> on OI yet (would defeat the whole purpose of my tool)
> 
> So, I'd like to know your oppisions on Golang on OI.
> Is there already a practically usable port ? Or is there some offical
> upstream build that can be easily installed and reliable ?

I can't speak to OI specifically, but in there is GOOS=illumos upstream
in golang, which should generally speaking work reasonably well.

Robert

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Re: [discuss] status of Golang

[Marcel Telka]

On Fri, Jan 31, 2025 at 05:16:51PM +0100, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> I'm thinking about using golang in my xorg-testing-ground tool.
> But of course that would be a bad idea, if golang doens't work well
> on OI yet (would defeat the whole purpose of my tool)
> 
> So, I'd like to know your oppisions on Golang on OI.
> Is there already a practically usable port ? Or is there some offical
> upstream build that can be easily installed and reliable ?

OpenIndiana specific questions is better to ask in OI mailing list(s) -
see https://openindiana.org/community/ for details.

For this particular case you can simply `pkg install golang` and try
yourself how it behaves (and let us know when there is something
unexpected).


HTH.

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Re: [discuss] status of Golang

[Till Wegmueller]

illumos sponsors a builder for the official golang CI so it is fully 
supported. We have very good support for Golang, Rust and Python. Most 
people here in the community prefer to write Rust over golang but it is 
equally well supported.

-Till

On 31.01.25 17:16, Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult wrote:
> Hi folks,
> 
> I'm thinking about using golang in my xorg-testing-ground tool.
> But of course that would be a bad idea, if golang doens't work well
> on OI yet (would defeat the whole purpose of my tool)
> 
> So, I'd like to know your oppisions on Golang on OI.
> Is there already a practically usable port ? Or is there some offical
> upstream build that can be easily installed and reliable ?
> 
> thx
> --mtx
> 
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Re: [discuss] status of Golang

[Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult]

On 01.02.25 01:32, Till Wegmueller wrote:
> illumos sponsors a builder for the official golang CI so it is fully
> supported. We have very good support for Golang, Rust and Python. Most
> people here in the community prefer to write Rust over golang but it is
> equally well supported.

That's great :)

So, if I'm going to write crossplattform tools that shall run on
Solaris, that would be the way to go for me.

Does anybody happen to know about the situation on BSD's ?


--mtx

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Re: [discuss] status of Golang

[Peter Tribble]

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On Tue, Feb 11, 2025 at 12:46 PM Enrico Weigelt, metux IT consult <
lkml@metux.net> wrote:

> On 01.02.25 01:32, Till Wegmueller wrote:
> > illumos sponsors a builder for the official golang CI so it is fully
> > supported. We have very good support for Golang, Rust and Python. Most
> > people here in the community prefer to write Rust over golang but it is
> > equally well supported.
>
> That's great :)
>
> So, if I'm going to write crossplattform tools that shall run on
> Solaris, that would be the way to go for me.
>
> Does anybody happen to know about the situation on BSD's ?
>

You can look at the list of platforms available for download at
https://go.dev/dl/
- you'll need to expand the 'Other Ports'. Plenty of evidence of FreeBSD,
netbsd,
openbsd, even dragonfly - and both illumos and solaris available in binary
form.

(What you won't see is anything like SPARC, but that's a bit of a lost
cause as far
as go is concerned.)


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Re: [discuss] status of Golang

[Alan Coopersmith via illumos-discuss]

On 2/11/25 04:54, Peter Tribble wrote:
> (What you won't see is anything like SPARC, but that's a bit of a lost cause as far
> as go is concerned.)

Yeah, for SPARC, we're pretty much limited to gccgo, which is why we don't
really recommend Go for people who need to support Solaris on both SPARC & x64.

For those who only need x64 support, things should be mostly fine though.

        -alan-

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Re: [discuss] status of Golang

[Goetz T. Fischer via illumos-discuss]

On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 18:17:58 -0800, Alan Coopersmith via illumos-discuss wrote:
> Yeah, for SPARC, we're pretty much limited to gccgo, which is why we don't
> really recommend Go for people who need to support Solaris on both SPARC & x64.

i didn't follow go closely recently but around version 1.10 the original go compiler's options were 
a joke and the gccgo results were much better performance wise as well. so gccgo seemed to be the 
only serious way to go (pun intended) anyway.

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