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grumpydba | 6 years ago

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18399389.

It's been done. Performs well.

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rowanG077|6 years ago

They quite literally were forced to use C for some parts because Go is not a systems programming language. They write this in the article.

grumpydba|6 years ago

> As we wanted to keep unsafe code to a minimum, we instead chose to employ the C code from the original driver as an opportunity to present cgo.

It's not for performance reasons. I think you misread. Also the driver is pure go now:

https://github.com/ixy-languages/ixy.go