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Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

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Go Embed Is a New Thing That Comes in Go 1.16

Go Embed is a new thing that came in Go 1.16 and it lets you put files inside the binary. Why would you want to do such a thing? Tell us, somebody. We've been doing it for years in a variety of ways. The one that everybody usually talks about is web apps. And wouldn't it be nice if all of that was self-contained and we didn't have to have all those files on disk? That's kind of the use case scenario.

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