plibsys

Highly portable C system library: threads and synchronization primitives, sockets (TCP, UDP, SCTP), IPv4 and IPv6, IPC, hash functions (MD5, SHA-1, SHA-2, SHA-3, GOST), binary trees (RB, AVL) and more. Native code performance.

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C is hard. You're right though, why not use C? It's a good language, and it's hard to beat for it's low level powers, portability and speed. What go gives you is high level…

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Jun 21, 10:00	2016-06-21 10:00:00 UTC	2016-06-21 11:00:00 UTC	1	1
Jun 21, 11:00	2016-06-21 11:00:00 UTC	2016-06-21 12:00:00 UTC	0	0
Jun 21, 12:00	2016-06-21 12:00:00 UTC	2016-06-21 13:00:00 UTC	1	1

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gummiruessel·Jun 21, 2016

>Have a look at this excellent highly portable IPC library: https://github.com/saprykin/plibsys <-- That's the right choice for the right job. >[...] >...but for a web service or web framework? >nah. >Go was written specifically for those purposes, with high throughput performance as its goal, and a significant amount of effort devoted to optimizing that. >It's not suitable for something like plibsys either. I found this part of your comment difficult to understand. Is C not suitable for plibsys after all, or is it Go which wouldn't be suitable, or something else?

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