A Little More of Google's Go (Tuesday, November 17, 2009) - Well, I've been spending a little more time fiddling with Google's new Go programming language of late and again figured I'd share some more playing-around-code. Edit 12/2/2009: Note that I've launched PhatGoCode.com, a site full of Go example code. HTTP Operations and XML Processing One of my favorite examples I tend to use in higher level languages is the retrieval
First Impressions of Go, Google's New Systems Language (Saturday, November 14, 2009) - It's funny. These days I hear Google's name mentioned in reference to subjects I never would have imagined three or four years back. Cell phones... Web browsers... Operating Systems... And a systems programming language??? Yes, a systems programming language... By the name of "Go", actually. It boasts garbage collection, enhanced safety and slick concurrency.