Google I/O 2011: Writing Web Apps in Go

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]

The "Talks and Videos" page ( [link] ) is outdated as well.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