{
  "id": 2154662,
  "title": "Going freestanding",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/going-freestanding",
  "topic": "tech",
  "section": "Tech",
  "published": "2026-08-20T14:35:27.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Lobsters",
    "slug": "lobsters",
    "url": "https://antonz.org/going-freestanding/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "In the world of programming, Go is a language that can be compiled to C code, creating a subset known as Solod. This subset aims to provide a Go-like experience while allowing the resulting code to be freestanding, independent of a standard library or specific operating system runtime. The author of Solod, who preferred writing C code with Go, decided to port Go's standard library to make as many packages as possible freestanding. This post describes the techniques used to achieve this goal.",
  "summary": null,
  "key_points": [
    "Go language can be compiled to C code, creating Solod subset.",
    "Solod aims to provide Go-like experience with freestanding code.",
    "Author ported Go's standard library to make packages freestanding."
  ],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
    "outlets": 1,
    "also_reported_by": []
  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}