Go as a Scripting Language in Linux
summary
Claim: Go is usable as a practical Linux scripting language by pairing a small interpreter shim with kernel-level registration. Demonstration shows go run masks exit codes and raw shebangs fail, the fragile shell-ism workaround breaks when invoked outside a shell, and a custom interpreter plus binfmt_misc registration lets .go files execute with correct argument passing and exit status and still compile as regular Go binaries. Implemented with a third‑party go-run shim and Linux binfmt_misc; the approach works in demos and on real systems.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 1:50Why? • easy to learn, write and read
- 3:00Potential uses
- 4:11What do you need for a proper script?
- 5:46What do you need from a proper script?
- 7:02The shebang line
- 13:03with shellism (take 2)
- 13:33How Linux executes files
- 16:37gorun tool
- 17:01with gorun
- 19:24binfmt_misc usage 101
- 20:52with nothing!
- 21:40Conclusions . Go may be useful as a scripting language
- 22:24Useful links
