<div dir="ltr">I haven't spent any time with Go, myself. But it's worth mentioning that Go compiles to a native binary. Quite frankly, it's probably better to learn Go than C if that's a requirement for your end result.<div><br></div><div>Same thing with Swift. I have a little exposure to it (just playing around), and quite like it. It seems to have taken the best parts from a lot of languages and put them together in a nice way. I'm very pleased that it was open sourced, and look forward to seeing where that leads.</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 8:08 AM, Darrell Golliher <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:darrell@golliher.net" target="_blank">darrell@golliher.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<span>Leam, you mentioned fun in your criteria. I like that. The most fun I’ve had programming lately has been <div>in Go. pro-tip for googling it is is to use “golang” <a href="https://golang.org" target="_blank">https://golang.org</a> I’ve done basic, pascal, modular-2, assembly, C, C++, Perl, Python, Javascript and probably a few others I’ve forgotten. Go rocks.</div>
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<div>I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about it from a career path perspective, but there are some signs it could prove</div>
<div>marketable, maybe. Docker is built with it for example. Digital Ocean seems to use it a lot too.</div>
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<div>Here’s a list of companies.. <a href="https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers" target="_blank">https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers</a></div>
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<div>Maybe it’s never be more than a niche language — I can’t predict the future on that one. I hear good things about Rust and with Apple’s Swift being open sourced it has a shot a being generally useful too. Javascript has even gotten more interesting with the rise of the node, express and angular (aka. MEAN stack when you add mongoldb).</div>
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<div>Anyway.. I digress. I was trying to plug Go. :-)</div>
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<div>cheers,</div>
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<div>Darrell</div>
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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><p>On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 7:18 AM, Leam Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:leamhall@gmail.com" target="_blank">leamhall@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br></p><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><p>On 08/05/15 23:44, Michael B. Trausch wrote:
<br>> On Wed, 2015-08-05 at 12:45 -0400, DJ-Pfulio wrote:
<br>>> RoR work is also highly sought these days.
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<br>> I don't know for the life of me why. A server system written in C or
<br>> C++ runs just as fast and if written correctly consumes far less
<br>> resources. And such programmers seem to actually care about upgrades
<br>> working without a problem. After fighting with several Rails apps over
<br>> problems such as runaway resource consumption and the inability to
<br>> perform upgrades as per directions supplied by the programmer, I gave up
<br>> on allowing that crap on my infrastructure a long time ago.
<br><br>Good morning Michael! I always look forward to your programming
<br>perspectives.
<br><br>One of the reasons I stayed away from Ruby for a long time was their
<br>website. I'm assuming it was in Ruby/RoR and it was often too slow to use.
<br><br>The niche I'm having fun with at the moment is learning OOP and Testing
<br>while munging XML, JSON, and user input. It's amazing how many "tools"
<br>IT shops buy that don't talk to each other. If I can solve some of that
<br>it's a win. While Ruby isn't the most performant in terms of memory
<br>usage and CPU cycles burned, it is helping me solve problems. I have
<br>less time with the language than I did with C or Python, but I can do
<br>more. I can also enjoy life a little, which is a big win as I get older.
<br><br>Maybe I've just gotten to be a little better at programming and am
<br>picking Ruby up faster. I don't know. I am having fun and getting things
<br>done. Life would be ideal if I could quit looking sideways at C or Go.
<br>"Performance envy"? Maybe. I'd like to be content but every time I
<br>decide to see what other opportunities are available they ask for things
<br>I don't have.
<br><br>Leam
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