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date = "2017-02-16T23:29:45+01:00"
title = "Plugins in Go 1.8"
tags = [ "tech", "go", "go1.8", "golang", "plugins" ]
categories = [ "tech" ]
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This is a talk I gave at the Go 1.8 Release party at the [Golang Paris Meetup](https://www.meetup.com/fr-FR/Golang-Paris/events/236696058/). Source for the slides and the code is on Github (see below).
## Get the demo and check out the source code
On Github: https://github.com/GildasCh/go-plugins-demo
## Interesting feedback and unanswered questions
- If plugins cannot be closed is there any confliting corner cases?
- It turns out that yes, there can be. I got some "plugin already
loaded" and "plugin already initialized" error when loading too
plugins that were built with the same name... **TODO**: investigate
more on this (results will be posted here).
- ```plugin: plugin _/usr/src/pluginSrc/brightness already loaded
fatal error: plugin: plugin already loaded```
- When are the plugins coming to Windows?
- One of the promise of Go is that it runs the same of a large
variety of OS and processors, plugins should therefore be ported
to Windows. I did not found talks about this, if I do, I'll post
it here.