Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

2018-02-04 Thread David Mason via talk
I'm not a crypto expert. (Hugh?) Most of the crates seem like they are either rust connectors to other systems (like OpenSSL) or use https://github.com/briansmith/ring (which follows BoringSSL, which is Google's fork of OpenSSL). On the other hand, the links suggests that ring is currently

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

2018-02-03 Thread Jamon Camisso via talk
On 2018-02-03 10:28 AM, David Mason via talk wrote: > I'd also comment on Rust being an interesting competitor to Go. > > Rust has better performance, complete statically determined safety > (enforced by the type system), no garbage collection, minimal runtime, and > an active group targeting

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

2018-02-03 Thread David Mason via talk
I'd also comment on Rust being an interesting competitor to Go. Rust has better performance, complete statically determined safety (enforced by the type system), no garbage collection, minimal runtime, and an active group targeting WebAssembly (i.e. very high performance browser programs). It's

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

2018-02-02 Thread Christopher Browne via talk
On 2 February 2018 at 16:35, William Park via talk wrote: > You should be comparing Swift (iOS) with Ketlin (Android). I'm leaning > towards Ketlin, just I can't afford Apple. We'll see what Google will > do with Go. Seems to me that these represent somewhat different

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

2018-02-02 Thread Jamon Camisso via talk
On 02/02/18 13:16, Myles Braithwaite  via talk wrote: > On 2018-02-02 09:14, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: >> Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive. >> They originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more >> performance but not to the level that would

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

2018-02-02 Thread Myles Braithwaite  via talk
On 2018-02-02 09:14, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive. They originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more performance but not to the level that would require assembler or even C. What else have folks observed?

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

2018-02-02 Thread D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk
| From: David Collier-Brown via talk | | Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive.  They | originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more performance but not | to the level that would require assembler or even C. | | What else have folks

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

2018-02-02 Thread Daniel Wayne Armstrong via talk
On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 9:14 AM, David Collier-Brown via talk < talk@gtalug.org> wrote: > Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive. They > originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more performance but > not to the level that would require assembler or even C.

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

2018-02-02 Thread Jason Shaw via talk
Go is becoming more and more common in the SysAdmin/SRE tools world. Kubernetes, GH-OST, and as mentioned by Lennart, many of the other docker tools are all in Go. It looks like a language that's going to be around for a while. On Fri, Feb 2, 2018 at 11:06 AM, Lennart Sorensen via talk

Re: [GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

2018-02-02 Thread Lennart Sorensen via talk
On Fri, Feb 02, 2018 at 09:14:24AM -0500, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote: > Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive.  They > originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more performance but not > to the level that would require assembler or even C. > > What