Show HN: Goempy – Ship a CPython interpreter inside your Go binary

Category: devtools

Tags: go, python, embedding, interoperability, deployment

Score: 7.0/10 (Innovation: 6, Technical: 7, Documentation: 9, Utility: 6)

Goempy embeds a complete, standalone CPython interpreter within a Go binary, allowing Python code execution on systems without Python installed. It's interesting because it cleverly avoids CGo and complex cross-compilation issues by extracting a pre-packaged Python distribution at runtime, providing a clean deployment story for Go applications that need Python scripting or libraries.

Target audience: backend devs, devops

Repository: https://github.com/tamnd/goempy · Go · Apache-2.0 · 2 stars

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