Hi, This is a fairly generic question but has some specifics too Ill ask the specific first - I am trying to use golang to talk to kafka and it works, but a fairly important part of my application is to subscribe to information in many topics where the topic is matched server side and will include new topics added since the subscribe. I have read that kafka can do this, but I cannot see any way of asking it to do it via golang apart from with the library https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go <https://github.com/confluentinc/confluent-kafka-go> - which uses a library called librdkafka which I would have to compile and I am struggling as I am using an arm processor (long story behind that one - but I don’t think this solution will ever work with an arm processor). All other libraries seem to not offer this. Is this because of some underlying restriction in kafka or do you think it is going to be a case of keep hunting until I find one that does ?
Then the more generic question - I get the feeling that Scala and Java are first class citizens when it comes to using kafka. Whilst I love Scala - I am learning golang and am more generally a ruby developer. Am I likely go get a ‘second class’ service with these other languages - with restrictions around zookeeper for example (I think I read something about having to have knowledge of which partition to subscribe to - where zookeeper would normally track this but there is no API for it) ? Many Thanks Gary Taylor
