Programming in Go with Michael Van Sickle

.NET Rocks!

• Episode: Programming in Go with Michael Van Sickle
• Website: .NET Rocks!
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• Duration: 00:52:00
• Published: 2015-10-13 06:00

How much can a language do with only 25 keywords? Carl and Richard talk to Michael Van Sickle about Google's Go Language. The focus in Go is on simplicity and structure - it's amazing what you can do with so few keywords, plus fixed locations for braces, indentations, and so on. The benefit of Go is easy-to-read code that has great concurrency capabilities - the Actor model is a standard pattern of development for Go. Michael also digs into the tooling around Go, using Atom for an editor and various plug ins to make coding and debugging easier. So how good is Go? Docker is written in Go! Check it out!