https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/tags/golang/ Recent content in Golang on Nikhil's blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-US Sun, 16 Oct 2016 15:51:46 -0700 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2016/why-golang-great-for-network-services/ Sun, 16 Oct 2016 15:51:46 -0700 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2016/why-golang-great-for-network-services/ I’ve been using Go professionally for over a year now. While I’m not a fan of every decision made by the language, I will admit that Go gets a lot of things right for one segment of the industry - network daemons and similar systems software. Google’s ethos are engineering solid and reliable services at scale; various design decisions make Go well suited for this. Go favors composition at multiple levels. https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2012/playing-with-go/ Fri, 06 Apr 2012 20:12:00 +0000 https://master--suspicious-stonebraker-7d2d21.netlify.app/post/2012/playing-with-go/ With Go 1 being released, I’ve been playing with the language once again. As a long weekend hack, I created a clone of the literate programming Docco tool in Go – quite naturally called Gocco. This blog post chronicles my feelings about the language, and some rough spots I got stuck in. I started out with a direct translation of the original CoffeeScript to Go. Go is remarkably unlike C and more like high level languages.