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by alecthomas 2239 days ago
This is not accurate. [1]

When compiled on Linux for Linux, Go will use libc and natively call NSS.

When cross-compiling to Linux from another system, Go requires (mostly) CGO to be disabled and a subset of NSS will be implemented in Go. Native NSS modules will not work.

[1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24083