Extensive tutorial on go-plugin.
Intro If you don’t know what go-plugin is, don’t worry, here is a small introduction on the subject matter: Back in the old days when Go didn’t have the plugin package, HashiCorp was desperately looking for a way to use plugins. In the old days, Lua plus Go wasn’t really a thing yet, and to be honest, nobody wants to write Lua ( joking!). And thus Mitchell had this brilliant idea of using RPC over the local network to serve a local interface as something that could easily be implemented with any other language that supported RPC....