Philippe Gaultier 2/14/2025

Addressing CGO pains, one at a time

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This technical article details practical solutions for common issues and surprises when using CGO, Go's Foreign Function Interface, to integrate with C and Rust libraries. It covers topics like handling C unions, slices vs strings, cross-compilation, debugging, and dealing with compiler quirks, based on the author's experience maintaining a Go codebase that interacts with a Rust library via a C API.

Addressing CGO pains, one at a time

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