Possible not to depend on Go (via pup)?

[barracuda156]

Describe the feature or problem you’d like to solve

Go is a poorly portable language, it is broken on some platforms, and its upstream has no desire to fix it. In result, on those platforms it is impossible to compile any Go packages.

Proposed solution

If there is some portable option (in C/C++/Python), it would be great to replace pup or at least have a fallback for systems without Go.

[metaory]

Hi @barracuda156 , I fully agree, I'm not a go fan for the same portability reasons you mentioned.

That said here we are downloading the prebuilt binary release of the pub,

Users dont need go lang installed to build from source.

we can consider other alternatives like htmlq/hxselect, generally

[barracuda156]

Thank you for responding. Prebuilt binary works for some case but not for others: a) some Linux distros and package managers are strict about avoiding binary blobs; b) some users may want to avoid the same even when a package manager allows that in principle; c) when Go is broken for a given platform, prebuilt binaries cannot exist.

[metaory]

I'm 1000% with you,
I started trying to do this without any lib, with sed and awk,

But doing dom query soon became very messy

I might give vanilla another shot

I'm also open to any other alternative..

xmlstarlet, xmllint, xpath are all good options

Ok I'll give xmlstarlet another serious shot

Thank you @barracuda156