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by itamarst 3127 days ago
Sadly the experiment I did isn't public. My memory is I compiled the Go thing to a shared library, and exposed a C API, and then used cffi to talk to the C API (based on https://blog.filippo.io/building-python-modules-with-go-1-5/, except cffi instead of Python C API).

Go objects needed to be managed C style: internally Go thing had a map between integer identifier and object, and Python just got the integer identifier and had to manually tell Go code to deallocate.
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cakes 3127 days ago
I was recently trying to do something similar and looked/tried go as a solution but I ran into some initial issues around my own confidence that the shared lib would work and that I wouldn't eventually really mess up the deallocation step.
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itamarst 3127 days ago
I'm not sure I'd recommend it, yeah...
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wareotie 3124 days ago
Thanks for the suggestion. In fact, I'm thinking in dropping the idea and port it, but I'm not confident with my Python skills and there are plenty of concurrency stuff in the library.

Well, I guess is time to learn Python

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