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by cgag 4699 days ago
What's easier about deploying Go vs with the JVM? Deploying stuff I've written in Clojure has been pretty easy.
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threeseed 4699 days ago
It's more your 'typical' Java app.

Which is often the huge array of JARs and folder structure you typically need to bootstrap.

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cgag 4698 days ago
My understanding is you can just build an uberjar that contains all that, then just drop that jar on your sever and run it (java -jar myuberjar.jar).
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pallinder 4699 days ago
go build

It compiles a binary, just send it to the server and it will run, no need to even have go installed on the server (or any libs really).

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chc 4698 days ago
Doesn't this require your development machine to use the same architecture and OS as your server?
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wtf_is_up 4698 days ago
No. It's simple to build Go toolchains for whatever your deploy os/arch target is. Then you just cross-compile.

* Download Go source

* Extract, cd go/src/

* GOOS=linux GOARCH=386 ./make.bash #this will build the linux_386 toolchain

* GOOS=linux GOARCH=amd64 ./make.bash #linux_amd64

* GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm ./make.bash #you get the picture

GOOS can be windows, darwin, freebsd, netbsd, plan9.

Then when you want to cross-compile your app, you do:

GOOS=linux GOARCH=arm go build myApp.go

That's it. Now you have a statically linked binary that you can drop on whatever your target is. As someone who has had to cross-compile a lot of C and C++ code, I find this simplicity to be a huge win.

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chc 4698 days ago
Thanks for that. It's been a while since I used Go. That is quite nice.
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