purego
Fewer than 5 people recommend it so far, so there's no written verdict. Here is what commenters said.
3recommend
0warn against
Dec 12, 2025first mention
May 17, 2026latest mention
Why people recommend it
“You can just embed the C library into the binary of the Go app call it directly in Go.”
“If you want to avoid Cgo, you can use https://github.com/ebitengine/purego”
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“The purego lib generalizes this idea. I haven't got round to trying this yet but it looks very promising.”
“you can use https://github.com/ebitengine/purego to generate the bindings”
Caveats and dissent
No one in these comments warned against it.
Threads where it came up
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- A Few Words on DS4 1 mention
- Just Fucking Use Go 1 mention
- Goffi – Pure Go FFI with hand-written assembly for System V, Win64, ARM64 1 mention
- Tailscale state file encryption no longer enabled by default 1 mention
Data: purego.json. Quotes are verbatim; the verdict and theme labels are written by a model from these comments, and every clause links to its sources.
All comments 6
“Initial release wraps the API using purego”
“You can just embed the C library into the binary of the Go app call it directly in Go.”
“purego supports 8 GOARCHes and 20+ OS×ARCH combinations”
“If you want to avoid Cgo, you can use https://github.com/ebitengine/purego”
“The purego lib generalizes this idea. I haven't got round to trying this yet but it looks very promising.”
“you can use https://github.com/ebitengine/purego to generate the bindings”