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by datashaman 2114 days ago
One of the beauties of bash is that it's _not_ compiled.

Can you read the Go source code from a Go binary? Is the algorithm transparent to the user?

How do you jump back to work on a binary? You have to keep the source code somewhere else (probably in a repo somewhere); now you have an application instead of a script.
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tikkabhuna 2114 days ago
> You have to keep the source code somewhere else (probably in a repo somewhere)

You should be doing that for scripts as well! Far too often I've seen problems arise when a team depends on a process but its just a shell script run by cron from the home directory of the guy who's on vacation.

You could also do `go run main.go` if you want to be close to the source. The Gitlab Runner repo has a "script" run like that[1].

[1] https://gitlab.com/gitlab-org/gitlab-runner/-/blob/master/Ma...

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cle 2112 days ago
Yeah that's one of the first things I mentioned. Go executables aren't editable. In practice it barely makes a difference, if you can SSH onto a machine then you can SCP a binary onto it too. At that point you edit the source code and press Ctrl+P, Return to rerun "go build -o fix-the-thing main.go && scp fix-the-thing $HOST:/tmp && ssh /tmp/fix-the-thing". And then you've got your code ready to check in to source.
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