[Feature Request] A native Golang driver without C

[hsluoyz]

I saw all other drivers (Java, Python, .NET) are implemented purely in its language, except Go is a wrapper of C. But it causes difficult build and relies on cgo. So can we develop a purely Go native driver?

[technige]

Thank you for your suggestion. We will consider it.

[mcolburn]

I also vote for this.

[burdiyan]

It would be of great help to have a native driver (effectively considering the fact that other languages are implemented natively). So +1.

+1

[youshy]

+1

[DSchmidlin]

+1

[krocos]

Any progress on this issue? It would be great to get positive developers answer like "alright guys it's almost ready" 🙄😁

[megakoresh]

This driver is currently fairly useless due to ridiculous number of issues with seabolt, as it requires more effort to build than writing actual code in the library consumer. I sincerely hope this feature request gets prioritized high.

Having external dependencies is counter to golang's conventions, and the dependencies themselves are have very unconventional linkage, preventing them from building anywhere but the particularly configured linux machines neo4j devs use. Or so it seems. At least it doesn't build on neither mac or windows, and following their instructions doesn't help.

In addition cross-compiling is a widely-used feature of golang that anything using this library wouldn't be able to take advantage of.

[technige]

We have definitely heard the Go community's strong opinions on this, and do plan to re-approach the architecture of the Go Driver. As yet, I cannot give a timescale though, as this is a non-trivial piece of work.

[mvid]

@technige I have been doing some work to integrate Neo4j into the standard go ecosystem, but this c library makes it pretty much a nonstarter. I took at look at gobolt, the connecting library between seabolt and this driver, and it seems like there is already solid encapsulation of logic, with the implementation limited to the Connection interface. Wouldn't the only necessary development be to implement an alternative to seaboltConnection, that doesn't use seabolt and just uses go directly? Am I missing something?

[2hdddg]

There will be a pure Go version of this driver, ongoing work on 1.8-dev branch. After that we will continue with a 4.0 driver to support new featues in ne4j server 4.0

[superbeeny]

Is there a timeline of when the 1.8 driver will be released?