[Wolves] Wolvescon

[Chris Ellis]

>
> Ron
>
> (This might be my first post, or my first post in years.)
>
> I'd like to do a Go lang presentation if folks are interested.
>

I'd be interested in a talk on Go


>
> For those who don't know anything about it see :  http://golang.org/
> It is Open Source, copyright Go lang authors, not Google, since 2009
>
> Original Design team:
> - Robert Greismer (StrongTalk, Java Hotspot, Google V8)
> - Rob Pike, (Plan 9, Newsqueak, Limbo, ...)
> - *THE* Ken Thompson (UNIX, Plan 9, Plan 9 C compilers, UTF-8, ...),
>
>
> Concurrency supported in the Language
> MUCH faster compile than C++
> Easy to use tools
> Supports x86, amd64, ARM
> On Linux, BSD, OS X, Windows
> Tools are so well made, they can be used to cross-compile for any of the
> above, running on any of the above
>
> No need for make, ant, or your favourite build tool. Instead 'go build'
> does it all.
>
> It is a slightly bigger language than C, much smaller than C++, Java, C#,
> rust, ...
>    People claim you can become productive in a day or two - I'd say 2-3
> days
> It is as pleasant, and productive for development as a scripting language
> (choose your favourite from Ruby, Python, ...)
> Compiles to a statically linked binary (so lovely for cloud deployment, or
> embedded systems)
> Comparable in speed to C++ (i.e. within 2-3x, unless you want parallelism,
> in which case Go probably wins)
> 'Safer' than Java, much safer than C++ or C
>

As a Java fanboi, I'm intrigued by the above statement.


> Pretty good core library for writing servers, including HTTP servers,
> Some very nice ideas. IMHO so much simpler than Java/C++/C#/... yet more
> expressive, that it isn't funny
>
> Free server hosting available
>
> I could do a presentation, or a workshoppy-thing if folks bring laptops.
>
> GB-)
>
>
> > Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 09:29:49 +0100
> > From: Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk>
> > To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> > Subject: [Wolves] Wolvescon
> > Message-ID: <52429EFD.7070408 at wellsted.org.uk>
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> >
> > In recent discussions with Re-Load it has been suggwested that there
> > should be a Wolvescon (on similar lines to Brumcon
> > http://www.brum2600.net/brumcon/ ) and we have a date of Saturday, 30th
> > November as a possibility.  We have a venue (with a bar) available on
> > that date.
> >
> > In order to do this we need to start getting things moving ASAP, so
> > firstly, who would be interested in getting involved?
> >
> > Secondly, do you have a talk you could give (I will probably roll out my
> > IPv6 talk). We want to know that we have the talks before we start
> > committing ourselves.
>
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