The Lead Developer: Go – I made all the mistakes so you don't have to

A talk about Go showing mistakes to be avoided when coming from other languages, discussion about strengths, and perceived shortcomings like dependency management.

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1. James Abley Technical Architect Government Digital Service @jabley
2. Go – I made all the mistakes GDS James Abley
3. What it is, important concepts, what’s good and what’s not GDS James Abley
4. What is Go? GDS James Abley
5. Open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software GDS James Abley
6. Statically typed, with fast compile times GDS James Abley
7. Statically linked, native binaries GDS James Abley
8. What’s important? GDS James Abley
9. Communicating Sequential Processes GDS James Abley
10. Input Output Concurrency GDS James Abley
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12. What’s good? GDS James Abley
13. Religious formatting wars GDS James Abley
14. The standard library defines AST parsing and serialisation GDS James Abley
15. Crossing Refactoring’s Rubicon GDS James Abley
16. Backward compatibility GDS James Abley
17. Testing GDS James Abley
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19. Code coverage GDS James Abley
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21. Benchmarking GDS James Abley
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23. Profiling GDS James Abley
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26. Garbage collection GDS James Abley
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28. Ecosystem GDS James Abley
29. What’s not good? GDS James Abley
30. Dependency management GDS James Abley
31. Lots of community options, oh my! GDS James Abley
32. What’s the sweet spot? GDS James Abley
33. Summary GDS James Abley
34. Communicating Sequential Processes GDS James Abley
35. Great tooling GDS James Abley
36. https://gds.blog.gov.uk/jobs/ GDS James Abley
37. • https://blog.golang.org/go-fmt-your-code • http://blog.golang.org/introducing-gofix • http://danluu.com/monorepo/repos • https://github.com/gorilla/context/pull/21 • https://www.dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html • https://joearms.github.io/2013/04/05/concurrent-and- parallel-programming.html • http://blog.osteele.com/posts/2004/11/ides/ • http://martinfowler.com/articles/refactoringRubicon.html • http://godoc.org/golang.org/x/tools • https://twitter.com/brianhatfield/status/ 634166123605331968 GDS James Abley
38. James Abley Technical Architect Government Digital Service @jabley