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Re: Go 1.7 is released

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Post by mattetti » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 1:12 AM UTC

travjones wrote: post #7

Great work, Go team! Standout points in my opinion: Overall performance improvements: >> "We observed a 5–35% speedup across our benchmarks." Decreased compile times and binary size: >> "While these changes across the compiler toolchain are mostly invisible, users have observed a significant speedup in compile time and a reduction in binary size by as much as 20–30%." Vendoring dependencies by default: >> "...and in…

The faster compilation time & speed up is quite real in our real life prod application.

From Go 1.6 to 1.7: Test suite (CI), from 3:34 to 1:48 Docker image building, from 3:05 to 1:50

https://twitter.com/mattetti/status/763913903600349184

Re: Go 1.7 is released

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Post by ufmace » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 1:14 AM UTC

chrisper wrote: post #16

I just learned Go 2 days ago and today I am already running my own web app! I love Go because it is kind of like C, but better (more modern).Generally, I always program my stuff in Java, but whenever I have an idea of creating something I could only choose between: C, Java, bash. Obviously I am not going to use C and bash for most of my ideas. Thinking about solving my issues in Java is meh so often I decided it is n…

I suggest giving Ruby a try too. I find it great for both web dev and local automation scripts. You can do pretty much anything you can do in bash but with clearer and shorter code. I've been writing all my non-trivial automation code in Ruby for years.

Rails is just a popular web framework for Ruby, there's a lot more the language can do.

Re: Go 1.7 is released

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Post by ksec » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 1:32 AM UTC

Ok, off topic question. Not an expert in grammar, but something about "Go 1.7 is released" seems wrong to me. Anyone could tell me if this is an correct usage of grammar?

Edit: Dont know why so many downvote, but it is a honest question.

Re: Go 1.7 is released

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Post by collinvandyck76 » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 1:36 AM UTC

ksec wrote: post #23

Ok, off topic question. Not an expert in grammar, but something about "Go 1.7 is released" seems wrong to me. Anyone could tell me if this is an correct usage of grammar? Edit: Dont know why so many downvote, but it is a honest question.

What about it seems wrong to you?

Re: Go 1.7 is released

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Post by namelezz » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 1:46 AM UTC

mattetti wrote: post #21

travjones wrote: post #7

Great work, Go team! Standout points in my opinion: Overall performance improvements: >> "We observed a 5–35% speedup across our benchmarks." Decreased compile times and binary size: >> "While these changes across the compiler toolchain are mostly invisible, users have observed a significant speedup in compile time and a reduction in binary size by as much as 20–30%." Vendoring dependencies by default: >> "...and in…

The faster compilation time & speed up is quite real in our real life prod application. From Go 1.6 to 1.7: Test suite (CI), from 3:34 to 1:48 Docker image building, from 3:05 to 1:50 https://twitter.com/mattetti/status/763913903600349184

Following the twitter link and got this: "Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."

Re: Go 1.7 is released

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Post by andrewchambers » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 1:54 AM UTC

ksec wrote: post #23

Ok, off topic question. Not an expert in grammar, but something about "Go 1.7 is released" seems wrong to me. Anyone could tell me if this is an correct usage of grammar? Edit: Dont know why so many downvote, but it is a honest question.

Maybe "Go 1.7 has been released" or "Go 1.7 is out"

Re: Go 1.7 is released

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Post by scriptdevil » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 1:57 AM UTC

ksec wrote: post #23

Ok, off topic question. Not an expert in grammar, but something about "Go 1.7 is released" seems wrong to me. Anyone could tell me if this is an correct usage of grammar? Edit: Dont know why so many downvote, but it is a honest question.

I am not a native English speaker myself. But yes that fragment while correct parsed a bit weirdly in my head because "is" is often used for properties of an entity like "John is dead" and "has been" is often used for something that is done to something. Like "John has been convicted". I think it has something to do with "is" being a simple present form while "released" in one sense talks about the state of the object in which case it is fine but also in another case is the action of getting released in which case it is in the simple past tense.

Re: Go 1.7 is released

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Post by ksec » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 1:57 AM UTC

andrewchambers wrote: post #26

ksec wrote: post #23

Ok, off topic question. Not an expert in grammar, but something about "Go 1.7 is released" seems wrong to me. Anyone could tell me if this is an correct usage of grammar? Edit: Dont know why so many downvote, but it is a honest question.

Maybe "Go 1.7 has been released" or "Go 1.7 is out"

Exactly, both would have been a fine. I am wondering if this is a grammar mistake, or general English usage difference in US and Commonwealth countries.

Re: Go 1.7 is released

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Post by travjones » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 1:58 AM UTC

mattetti wrote: post #21

travjones wrote: post #7

Great work, Go team! Standout points in my opinion: Overall performance improvements: >> "We observed a 5–35% speedup across our benchmarks." Decreased compile times and binary size: >> "While these changes across the compiler toolchain are mostly invisible, users have observed a significant speedup in compile time and a reduction in binary size by as much as 20–30%." Vendoring dependencies by default: >> "...and in…

The faster compilation time & speed up is quite real in our real life prod application. From Go 1.6 to 1.7: Test suite (CI), from 3:34 to 1:48 Docker image building, from 3:05 to 1:50 https://twitter.com/mattetti/status/763913903600349184

Wow. That's impressive. Thanks for the example numbers, Matt!

Re: Go 1.7 is released

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Post by travjones » Tue, Aug 16, 2016, 1:58 AM UTC

namelezz wrote: post #25

mattetti wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The faster compilation time & speed up is quite real in our real life prod application. From Go 1.6 to 1.7: Test suite (CI), from 3:34 to 1:48 Docker image building, from 3:05 to 1:50 https://twitter.com/mattetti/status/763913903600349184

Following the twitter link and got this: "Something is technically wrong. Thanks for noticing—we're going to fix it up and have things back to normal soon."

The link works for me. :)