Go

What is it?

• Citation about junior engineers at Google
• Bullet Two
• Bullet Three

Plus

• Clean, small language spec
• Relatively performant
• Strong concurrency primitives built in
• GC (now fairly mature)
• Single "statically" compiled binary
• Simple cross platform compilation
• Implicitly implemented interfaces
• Strong focus on backwards compatibility and stability
• Quick compile times
• Good serialisation support for data
• Nice tooling for benchmarking and profiling built in

Minuses

• Basic type system
• Immutability case is weak
• Simple language => primitive?
• https://github.com/ksimka/go-is-not-good
• Conservative language evolution

Projects and companies

• Docker
• Kubernetes
• CoreOS
• Influx
• Hashicorp
• Google
• Uber
• Facebook
• ...

Learning resources

• Book(s)
  • http://www.gopl.io/
• https://tour.golang.org/
• Language spec
• Review comments
• Go time
• Conference talks
  • https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Conferences
• excersism.io
• Newsletter
  • Golang weekly
• Code ...