the lead developer: go – i made all the mistakes so you don't have to

James AbleyTechnical ArchitectGovernment Digital Service@jabley

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Go – I made all the mistakes

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What it is, important concepts, what’s good and what’s not

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What is Go?

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Open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software

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Statically typed, with fast compile times

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Statically linked, native binaries

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What’s important?

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CommunicatingSequentialProcesses

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InputOutputConcurrency

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What’s good?

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Religious formatting wars

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The standard library defines AST parsing and serialisation

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Crossing Refactoring’s Rubicon

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Backward compatibility

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Testing

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Code coverage

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Benchmarking

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Profiling

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Garbage collection

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Ecosystem

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What’s not good?

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Dependency management

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Lots of community options, oh my!

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What’s the sweet spot?

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Summary

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CommunicatingSequentialProcesses

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Great tooling

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• https://blog.golang.org/go-fmt-your-codehttp://blog.golang.org/introducing-gofixhttp://danluu.com/monorepo/reposhttps://github.com/gorilla/context/pull/21https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.htmlhttps://joearms.github.io/2013/04/05/concurrent-and-parallel-programming.htmlhttp://blog.osteele.com/posts/2004/11/ides/http://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoringRubicon.htmlhttp://godoc.org/golang.org/x/toolshttps://twitter.com/brianhatfield/status/634166123605331968

James AbleyTechnical ArchitectGovernment Digital Service@jabley