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Building Desktop Utilities in Go
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csaunders
October 23, 2014
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Building Desktop Utilities in Go
Talk I did about building programs in go and some useful libraries that make building them easier.
csaunders
October 23, 2014
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Transcript
Building Desktop Utilities in Go
Libraries
Flag import “flag”
fsnotify import "gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1"
Recursive fsnotify
Recursive fsnotify
Curses import "github.com/nsf/termbox-go"
None
None
Building your own Libraries & Binaries
None
None
Why?
None
programs
–Some old dude “Do one thing and do it well.”
None
Phoenix theme synchronization for everybody
•shopify_theme (ruby) - janky •gothemego (go) - ¯\(°_o)/¯ •themebox (ruby
& rails) - slow
–me on debugging every shopify_theme Windows issue ever “I’ll try
to replicate this when I get home”
Why Go over X?
Halp!
Questions?
• Libraries • http://github.com/csaunders/phoenix • https://github.com/howeyc/fsnotify • https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go • http://golang.org/pkg/flag/
• Articles • https://inconshreveable.com/09-09-2014/sweat-the- small-stuff/ • http://arslan.io/ten-useful-techniques-in-go • https://medium.com/@benbjohnson/structuring- applications-in-go-3b04be4ff091