[GTALUG] Increasing interest in the Go language

[Jamon Camisso]

On 02/02/18 13:16, Myles Braithwaite 👾 via talk wrote:
> On 2018-02-02 09:14, David Collier-Brown via talk wrote:
>> Later this month I'm joining a company that is fairly Go-intensive.
>> They originally prototyped in Perl, but over time needed more
>> performance but not to the level that would require assembler or even
>> C.
>>
>> What else have folks observed?
> 
> I've migrated a couple of personal and work stuff from Python 2 to Go in
> the last three months.
> 
> I've found that there is a larger third party library community now and
> the syntax isn't that foreign looking to me anymore, (see this Gist for
> an example,
> <https://gist.github.com/myles/a8ed889f4de1cde6be8be2640b34c89e>).
> 
> Also that speed gain is hard to ignore.

You might like https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery - makes it easy to
do the usual jquery type: thing.Find(".class").Each(func... processing.

Cheers, Jamon