On Sun, May 19, 2013 at 6:02 PM, Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> wrote:

> Andy Wingo <wingo@pobox.com> skribis:
>
> > On Sat 18 May 2013 15:44, Noah Lavine <noah.b.lavine@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> >> I have a very small question, based on something I think you said
> >> earlier - since the container will be ELF, will we call our files .so
> >> now?
> >
> > We certainly can.  Is it a good idea though?
>
> I’d vote for keeping .go, or at least something different from
> commonly-used extensions like .so.
>

I don't think it's a big deal, but the reason I asked was that I'm afraid
.go will become increasingly popular because of the Go language. .so also
sort of hints at native compilation in the future, although that's not a
very strong reason to choose it.

Noah