Not only it doesn't work in all platforms, it uses a bare bones C API with unsafe code, and it hasn't been removed yet due to backwards compatibility, as Russ Cox already expressed his opinion that plugin was a mistake from his point of view.

> Plugins are currently supported only on Linux, FreeBSD, and macOS, making them unsuitable for applications intended to be portable.

uh-huh

but, in all seriousness: I wonder why that is? I struggle to think of a technical reason that go would be unable to load and invoke a .dll even if one had to name it .so https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.21.1/src/plugin/plugin...