Why?

Why even bother using this instead of default LeoConsole plugin API?

Advantages

• more languages for LC plugins, maybe you like Go more that C#
• not required to install Microsoft software for development, especially important if you use Linux 🙃
• less boilerplate code (compare gilc example and LC plugin template)
• it is possible that additional library functions will be implemented that are not available in default ILeoConsole, which will simplify your development

Disadvantages

• bigger file sizes (.dlls are in KB-area, Go binaries are several MBs big)
• worse performance: a new process has to be started every time you execute a plugin (the plugin is also executed multiple times for PluginMain, PluginShutdown and the command call itself), which has to parse the data etc. If you have a lot of Go plugins installed, it can take a little longer at start, because all of them have to run PluginMain
• some ILeoConsole functions are not available (e. g. message formatting, however alternatives like arrowprint exist)