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The Why of Go
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| by Carmen Andoh Follow 3 Followers on Dec 28, 2017 |
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Summary
Carmen Andoh provides the historical context around the technical decisions of the Go language to better understand its concurrency primitives, garbage collection, and small standard library.

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Carmen Andoh is a software engineer on the Build Infrastructure team at Travis CI. She was the first scholarship recipient for Gophercon in 2015, where she was first introduced to Go, and hasn't looked back.

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great talk by John Broderick

I'm not a go programmer but this talk sold me on the language. Developers can sometimes lose sight of the cost of overloading a language with features and Carmen really makes the point of why small can be better
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good by Igor Maznitsa

let be pragmatical ones, the main plus of Go today is that it is possible to build a cross-platform application without big-tricks and get a solid executable file
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