[arbll]

For me the main reasons to pick Go in those context are cross-compilation, static binaries and more subjectively better productivity. You can very quickly get an MVP running and distribute it knowing it will work everywhere.

[rsync]

I appreciate the things you wrote at the end of the github page.

I have no idea if you could make any use of such a thing, but, if you email [e-mail] we would be happy to give a free-forever account to use in any way you see fit.

[duskwuff]

The user you're replying to isn't the author.

[sitkack]

Thank you.

[danudey]

In this specific case, the 'static binaries' and 'cross-compilation' aspect aren't relevant, as vanta is a dynamically linked binary with multiple library dependencies; it has to link against libpcap, which also pulls in some infiniband libraries on my system, plus libdbus which pulls in libsystemd, libgcrypt, libgpg-error, libcap, and libs lz4, lzma, and zstd. In fact, the only library that tcpdump links against that vanta doesn't is libcrypto.

Note that none of this has to do with vanta itself; it's solely because it depends on libpcap, and libpcap depends on all of those other libraries. Still, it does mean that cross-compiling isn't notably easier than just building tcpdump itself.