Not that I'm complaining but it this a coordinated effort to push Go to the front page? There are literally 6 submissions on the front page related to Go - what gives?
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The State of Go
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#62"Go 1.5 provides support for Android and experimental support for iOS." I thought this day would never come.
It will not come unless Android team changes their mind.
What the Go team is doing is providing the same level of access that C and C++ enjoy.
Which means that outside developing games or writing pure business logic, is all about JNI fun.
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#63Shared libraries? I thought "no DLLs" was one of the major design philosophies of Go.
I was surprised too given the Plan 9 culture's rejection of dynamic linking. However, this will probably deprecate or diminish the RPC and code generation techniques for implementing plugin architectures.
Yet Limbo uses it everywhere.
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#65Earlier quoted context omitted.
Go gets compared to Rust because go was originally labeled a "systems" language. But the designers had a different older view of what "systems" meant than what is commonly used to day. People heard systems and thought they meant low level/operating system/embedded systems. That is not what Go is good for because it's garbage collected. They also planned to attract C++ programmers, but they've basically been attractin…
Yeah, additionally it would be unwise to use Go in embedded systems because it is so reliant on heap memory for dynamic allocation. In certain situations where things could fail if an operation takes too long - rocketry and robots - it would be difficult to tell how long something would take in Go with any degree of certainty because allocating and freeing memory on the heap is highly non-deterministic.
If you can do it with .NET Micro Framework, Java (Atego, MicroEJ, J9, ...) and Oberon (Astrobe), surely Go is also welcomed.
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#66Not that I'm complaining but it this a coordinated effort to push Go to the front page? There are literally 6 submissions on the front page related to Go - what gives?
The same was true during the Microsoft Build event, the difference was that a lot of Microsoft employees registered a new (green) HN account. Not that I'm complaining but it looked more like a coordinated effort than Go language which has minimal PR from Google but is used by many devs around the world and is very big in Asia.
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#67I always have this question: Since a large project like Golang has so many auto-build tools and test OSes, how hard is it to provide a binary download for e.g. Ubuntu 14.04 LTS? You know, not tarballs, but actual static binaries as deb packages installable via apt-get. Good examples: http://wiki.nginx.org/Install https://www.percona.com/doc/percona-server/5.6/installation/... I root for open source movement, but to i…
Try this https://github.com/geosoft1/tools (related blog post: http://www.webupd8.org/2014/09/easily-install-latest-golang-...)
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#68Not that I'm complaining but it this a coordinated effort to push Go to the front page? There are literally 6 submissions on the front page related to Go - what gives?
The same was true during the Microsoft Build event, the difference was that a lot of Microsoft employees registered a new (green) HN account. Not that I'm complaining but it looked more like a coordinated effort than Go language which has minimal PR from Google but is used by many devs around the world and is very big in Asia.
There are a lot of MS employees on HN normally, no need for green accounts. Also, where is Go popular in Asia? I haven't heard much about it in China (it isn't a resume point yet).
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#69"Go 1.5 provides support for Android and experimental support for iOS." I thought this day would never come.
I seriously was wondering if Go would ever replace Java on Android because of legal troubles. I'm still wondering.
That will happen as soon as Android team decides to scrap all development of Android and rewrite it in Go.
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#70please tell me how to make such slide presentation
Use Go's "present" tool: https://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools/present