Building Desktop Utilities in Go

Talk I did about building programs in go and some useful libraries that make building them easier.

Transcript

1. Building Desktop Utilities in Go
2. Libraries
3. Flag import “flag”
4. fsnotify import "gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1"
5. Recursive fsnotify
6. Recursive fsnotify
7. Curses import "github.com/nsf/termbox-go"
10. Building your own Libraries & Binaries
13. Why?
15. programs
16. –Some old dude “Do one thing and do it well.”
18. Phoenix theme synchronization for everybody
19. •shopify_theme (ruby) - janky •gothemego (go) - ¯\(°_o)/¯ •themebox (ruby & rails) - slow
20. –me on debugging every shopify_theme Windows issue ever “I’ll try to replicate this when I get home”
21. Why Go over X?
22. Halp!
23. Questions?
24. • 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