What's good about Go

I had a chance to be invited to share about Go in Vietnam Web Summit. In the time of 20 minutes, I share my knowledge about Golang after working with it for the past 2 years.

We walked thru the its good and bad, also the gopher community in Vietnam.

Transcript

1. What's good about Go? Dwarves Foundation, 2016 1
2. Me • Han @ Dwarves Foundation • Software Engineer • Initiate Golang Vietnam | 2014 • @nntruonghan Dwarves Foundation, 2016 2
3. Dwarves Foundation • Ventures Builder • Development Lab • Golang-based systems • Mobile focused with Rx Programming Dwarves Foundation, 2016 3
4. Agenda • Intro to Go • What's good about Go • Go in real life • Community • Q&A Dwarves Foundation, 2016 4
5. Why another language? • Build software in faster & more interesting way • Make programmer life easier • Programming languages history Dwarves Foundation, 2016 5
6. Intro to Go • History • Go @ Google • 6 months / version • 1.7 Dwarves Foundation, 2016 6
7. Paradigm • Composition vs. Inheritance 1 • Imperative vs Declarative • Compiled vs Interpreted • Concurrency language (CSP) 1 Goodbye, Object Oriented Programming and Object-Oriented Programming: A Disaster Story Dwarves Foundation, 2016 7
8. Concurrency models* • Can be executed out-of-order or in partial order • The final outcome will remain the same. • List of concurrency models: http:// stackoverflow.com/questions/4153118/list-of- concurrency-models Dwarves Foundation, 2016 8
9. What does Go bring to us • Simplicity • Readability • Stability • Maturity • Dependability Dwarves Foundation, 2016 9
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11. What makes Go successful? • Speed of compilation • Speed of execution • Deployment • Tools • Libraries Dwarves Foundation, 2016 11
12. What makes Go successful? These are not language features. Less often cited: true language features such as interfaces or concurrency. All are important but not really an anwser. Dwarves Foundation, 2016 12
13. Simplicity • Language design: Go is simple. • Simplicity has many facets. • Simplicity is complicated. Dwarves Foundation, 2016 13
14. Go in real life Dwarves Foundation, 2016 14
15. Community • Go-nuts IRC • Golang-nuts Dwarves Foundation, 2016 15
16. Community • Gophers @ Slack Dwarves Foundation, 2016 16
17. Community • Reddit Dwarves Foundation, 2016 17
18. Vietnam Community Dwarves Foundation, 2016 18
19. Vietnam Community • Slack: golang.org.vn • Github: https://github.com/golang-vietnam/ community • Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ golang.org.vn/ Dwarves Foundation, 2016 19
20. Vietnam Community Dwarves Foundation, 2016 20
21. Jobs Dwarves Foundation, 2016 21
22. Thanks <3 Dwarves Foundation, 2016 22
23. Q&A Dwarves Foundation, 2016 23
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