Golang

monquixote · July 2016

Anyone here a follower of the gopher?

I'm redoing a bit of NodeJS code I wrote for work last week in Go just to see if I like it.

So far I'd say it's very quick to learn, very easy to do parallel stuff, but feels a bit old fashioned.

I've got so used to using map, reduce and filter everywhere that using a language without it freaks me out a bit.

axisus · July 2016

Google translate required ....

monquixote · July 2016

It's made by Google

https://blog.golang.org/gopher/gopher.png

Sambostar · July 2016

I just walked into a tree. A tree.

mellowsun · July 2016

Python and Ruby are my main languages atm. I've done some stuff in Node but most of what I do is CPU-bound. Learning Go is on my todo list but tbh Scala is a higher priority.

what sorts of projects are you doing in Go?

i struggle a bit with Node, as I'm used to using either strongly typed languages for production code or more rapid proof-of-concept stuff in Python or Ruby.

monquixote · July 2016

This is my first project.

It's a basic bit of glue code which calls some rest APIs transforms the data and posts it to another rest API .

What makes you want to learn Scala?

I started learning it a year or so ago but ended up a bit disappointed.

mellowsun · July 2016

Scala for running machine learning tasks in Apache Spark. Among other things I work on developing recommender systems where the input might be tens of millions of research papers so stuff needs to scale.

monquixote · July 2016

Ah that makes sense.

I'd like to try something with spark or storm. I write code to process sensor data from groups of phones and at the moment it's on a custom back end that I wrote.

I can never make my mind up with Scala. In some ways I love it , but the language is overly complex, the compilation times are horrible, and the FP features don't stand up to something like Haskell.

mellowsun · July 2016

Yeah, that's why I've been avoiding using Scala until now. I'd never write something from scratch in it!

BigBearKris · July 2016

Is that a Pokemon?

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