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Go version 1 is released

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Re: Go version 1 is released

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Post by blinks »

iamgopal wrote: post #19

How good is go compare to c/c++ ? ( in terms of speed especially ? ) Can we now say that Google Chrome can be written in Go and it will be faster and/or stable ? ( not saying it is not already. ). Congrats to the team, just started using go yesterday and loving it.

The language is interesting, at the very least -- concurrency primitives are nice, and the interface-based type system works for most cases (generic containers notwithstanding).

The major speed problem right now is GC, but that should be improving quickly.

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Post by melling »

Hitting 1.0 should convince more people to use it in production. However, getting any new language in an organization is always a struggle. Is there a list of organizations that currently use it in production?

[Update]

A few high-tech companies were listed. I was hoping more for big pharma or finance? There are some super convervative firms out there. Even Google, for example, will only allow a few languages in their firm.

Re: Go version 1 is released

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Post by peregrine »

mace wrote: post #16

Anyone care to share their experience writing something in go? I've toyed with it but not built anything in production. FWIW, the go dashboard ( https://godashboard.appspot.com/ ) has a number of interesting projects.

I've been putting together a small blogging application with Go just for fun on the side to pick up the language and work on my web design.

Its a great language, I'm not using it for half of its capabilities but it very much feels well thought out and the community is very helpful.

Key pieces:

-My code isn't much more complex than my ruby or python.

-The stdlib is pretty fantastic.

-Right now tutorials and 'blogs' are all over the place with compatibility for go, rule of thumb if it says "goinstall" in the guide probably a good sign its an older guide.

-All network communications use epoll in the backend so you get lots of the fun things you would normally get from something like node.js without callback soup.

Ideally go would probably work for a web service or building some backend networked code, or even a simple command line utility. Right now there is not much in the way of GUI code outside of websites which is unfortunate cause I'd like to use the goroutines with some graphics ideas I've had.

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Post by enneff »

melling wrote: post #24

Hitting 1.0 should convince more people to use it in production. However, getting any new language in an organization is always a struggle. Is there a list of organizations that currently use it in production? [Update] A few high-tech companies were listed. I was hoping more for big pharma or finance? There are some super convervative firms out there. Even Google, for example, will only allow a few languages in their…

Google, Canonical, and Heroku to name a few.

Re: Go version 1 is released

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Post by rsc »

melling wrote: post #24

Hitting 1.0 should convince more people to use it in production. However, getting any new language in an organization is always a struggle. Is there a list of organizations that currently use it in production? [Update] A few high-tech companies were listed. I was hoping more for big pharma or finance? There are some super convervative firms out there. Even Google, for example, will only allow a few languages in their…

http://blog.golang.org/2011/04/go-at-heroku.html

http://blog.golang.org/2011/12/building-stathat-with-go.html

http://code.google.com/p/vitess/

https://tinkercad.com/home/

There are more that we know of, and as they say that publicly we'll try to highlight them on the blog. Thanks.

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