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. This sounds convoluted but has many benefits! For example, your code will never crash because of a plugin and the ability to use any language to implement a plugin. Not just Go. ...