Why go plugin addresses do not load with go binary

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  1. go-plugin-example

    Discontinued Playing around with Go 1.8 plugin system

    I created a plugin using https://github.com/vladimirvivien/go-plugin-example go build -buildmode=plugin -o eng/eng.so eng/greeter.go

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  3. go-plugin

    Golang plugin system over RPC.

    It's a far better option to spawn sub processes as plugins. hashicorp has built a library for that.

  4. monkey

    Discontinued Monkey patching in Go (by bouk)

    Here is an example of this in Go - but as he says, don't actually do this. https://github.com/bouk/monkey

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