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Go Continuous Delivery is now open source

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Re: Go Continuous Delivery is now open source

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Post by psycr »

I'm curious why this is a Java/JRuby on Rails project and not natively written in Go itself. Does anyone have some insight here? Is it that the project requirements themselves lean towards Rails tooling? I'm sure I'm not the only one surprised by this.

EDIT: Ah, I'm not the smartest cookie in the jar. It, in fact, has nothing to do with Golang. I agree with the poster below who mentions this criticism.

Re: Go Continuous Delivery is now open source

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Post by bguthrie »

nathanwdavis wrote: post #19

As if Google's Go programming language was not already named poorly enough, now somebody creates a CD service called Go. Very confusing!

ThoughtWorks first released the commercial product that would become Go in 2008. It was rebranded later, shortly after the public announcement of Golang. Yes, it was a confusing move, but at the time there was no reason to believe that a programming language might conflict with a continuous delivery tool. Golang has produced a large and robust community, so of course it's confusing now. But it didn't come out of nowhere.

Re: Go Continuous Delivery is now open source

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Post by arvindsv »

Bjoern wrote: post #29

How does Go.cd measure up against e.g. Jenkins or Hudson?

The answer to this question probably deserves a blog post. But, as mentioned by @willejs here (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7646496), Jenkins has a well established community of plugins and plugin writers and so, is quite extensible. Go has good visualisation and good modeling capability, allowing you to model complex build and deployment workflows using a combination of tasks running in parallel and serial.

Both have many more pros and cons. To do justice to it, it needs a blog post. Let's see. Maybe I'll write one soon.

EDIT: This mailing list post has some more information: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/go-cd/jenkins/go-...

Re: Go Continuous Delivery is now open source

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Post by arvindsv »

nathanwdavis wrote: post #19

As if Google's Go programming language was not already named poorly enough, now somebody creates a CD service called Go. Very confusing!

Might be hard to do, since it has been around for a while, but here's the Github issue on the project about the name: https://github.com/gocd/gocd/issues/131

Re: Go Continuous Delivery is now open source

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Post by sagichmal »

hedwall wrote: post #5
alixaxel wrote: post #2

Poor choice for a name, it clashes with Googles Go(lang).

Both Go from TW and the other Go! Programming language[0] is older than the Go language from Google. [0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go!_(programming_language)

The name change to "Go" happened after Go(lang)'s public release. Kind of a dumb move.
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