135K views · May 13, 2011 · 51:12 · 0 HN recommenders · 3 mentions · discussed 2011–2012
A Google I/O 2011 talk by Andrew Gerrand and Rob Pike on building and deploying a web application in Go. It argues that Go offers speed, reliability and simplicity together.
Why Hacker News points people here: HN commenters cite it as an early official Go talk, including Rob Pike's remarks that Go aims to be useful rather than theoretically exciting.
“the video I mentioned is at”
Source of the video mentioned, Q&A at end.
They managed to optimize their golang.org homepage to get the position #5 on the word "go". They must be good at SEO. BTW the video I mentioned is at this video (at the end during Q&A)
Source for Rob Pike's remark on Go being useful, not theoretically exciting.
God what an annoying troll. It's a very new language, and things are being improved + fixed all the time, I would be very surprised indeed if tail-call optimisation + the ever so vital self-recursive lambda issue weren't fixed at a later date. To treat these things as permanently a part of the language is disingenuous at best. Rob Pike (part of the core team) has said that what puts a lot of PL people off is that it is not theoretically exciting, it's just designed to be very useful [1]. The funny thing about go is that it seems like an uninteresting language when you first begin, but as you write more code you begin to appreciate its simplicity and orthogonality and realise that these are extremely nice qualities. Language design is as much about saying no to things as it is to saying yes to things. On a related note, I don't like the implication that there is now a scientific method to language design which obviates the need for practical considerations - that strikes me as class A ivory tower bullshit. [1]: this video
“Writing Web Apps in Go”
Entry in a personal list of Go talks.
The "Talks and Videos" page ( link ) is outdated as well. Here's my personal list: Why Learn Go? link Short interview with Rob Pike, OSCON 2012 Get Started with Go link Andrew Gerrand A Tour of Go link Russ Cox Go Concurrency Patterns link Rob Pike, Google I/O 2012 Goroutines, Channels Meet the Go Team link Panel (Pike, Thompson, Griesemer, Gerrand, Fitzpatrick, Simons), Google I/O 2012 Computing Map Tiles with Go on App Engine link Chris Broadfoot, Andrew Gerrand, Google I/O 2012 Go in Production link Gustavo Niemeyer, Google I/O 2012 Go: Code that grows with grace link (Contains some audio glitches) Andrew Gerrand Interview with Rob Pike link Rob Pike, GOTO Conference Lexical Scanning in Go link Rob Pike Cuddle, A Go AppEngine Demo link Andrew Gerrand Building Integrated Apps on Google's Cloud Platform link Andrew Gerrand, Google Developer Day Japan 2011 Real World Go link Andrew Gerrand, I/O BootCamp 2011 Go: it's that simple?! link Andrew Gerrand, OSDC 2011 Practical Go Programming link Andrew Gerrand, FOSDEM 2011 Writing Web Apps in Go this video Andrew Gerrand, Rob Pike, Google I/O 2011 Go Programming link Rob Pike, Google I/O 2010 Another Go at Language Design link Rob Pike, Stanford University Public Static Void link Rob Pike, OSCON 2010 The Go Programming Language link Rob Pike, Google Tech Talk
