Anyone using go-lang?

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I am looking for meetups where I can chat to fellow devs using golang around Cape Town?
what kind of stuff are you using it for?
 
I've been trying to learn it in my spare time. Am still very much in the "Hello World" phase of learning as there are a couple of new concepts to get used to. So the whole using channels and getting used to the golang standard libraries and general syntax of declaring everything.

Haven't tried developing anything substantial but am planning on making up a full web server for home and maybe trying some Genetic Algorithm problems in it for practice :)

Other than that, have watched quite a few of the Google IO talks around Golang and really does look like quite an interesting language but I don't think I'd ever get a chance to use it in the work environment :p
 
I've been tinkering with golang, so far just playing around with porting PHP/python code. Haven't seen much interest around in Cape Town. Hopefully we can get a meetup together soon.
 
Currently using it on one of my projects, mostly for job dispatching to different processes on a multinode mq environment. Use it to determine load on specific nodes on the platform and route where required.
 
tco21 said:
Check out http://gobyexample.com
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Actually not a bad website. Kind of like an extension to the go tour site :)

What are you guys using to write your code in? Are you using any eclipse plugins or just plain old notepad/notepad++/sublime?

Also, any cool ways to better debug?

I've just been using Sublime and then compile through cmd. So catching compile errors are easy enough but there are certain times where obviously stepping through the code to see why something that looks like it should work, doesn't >.<
 
I'm programming the server side of my MMORPG in Go right here in Cape Town :)

Using LiteIDE
 
Cool Hamster, nice to see someone who believes in doing things the right way :) , hopefully one day I'll finally learn vim and stop using nano.

Hamster, you're obviously super 1337... why are you messing around with Go anyway ? You seem like an assembler guy! Now that's doing things the vim way :D .
 
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aquarat said:
Cool Hamster, nice to see someone who believes in doing things the right way :) , hopefully one day I'll finally learn vim and stop using nano.

Hamster, you're obviously super 1337... why are you messing around with Go anyway ? You seem like an assembler guy! Now that's doing things the vim way :D .
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I actually use Visual Studio because 1.) I'm not poor and 2.) I don't touch my stickered open source laptop in naughty places.

I am pretty ****ing 1337 though...
 
Yeah... now this might be a stretch but bear with me... it's my understanding that vim is not Visual Studio and if you're right and and the level of editor fanciness implies pussiness... you surely must be the king of all pussies.

But don't worry because fortunately I don't measure the world in terms of pussiness because it'd make me look like a dick and dicks f...

We like to have fun here :) .
 
Sublime, vim is cool for quick edits and where a GUI environment is not present. But I would never use it as my main editor, a few guys at work do, the time it takes them to navigate the code base vs me using sublime, well that speaks for itself, and this guy has been using vim for 8 years.
 
semaphore said:
Sublime, vim is cool for quick edits and where a GUI environment is not present. But I would never use it as my main editor, a few guys at work do, the time it takes them to navigate the code base vs me using sublime, well that speaks for itself, and this guy has been using vim for 8 years.
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For vim, I find it essential to have multiple windows (I use superputty) and monitors so that my active file set is all visible. I prefer VS otherwise, but it's far from ideal for Linux work.
 
Been playing with vs code the last few weaks instead of sublime. Lovely typescript support.
 
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