Any love for Go / GoLang here?

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I don't yet have any use for it. But GoLang seems to be an interesting new(ish) language, with a lot of support for multi threading and a reasonable mix of low level and high level syntax. I think I'm going to take a look at it and learn the basics.

Anyone here using it?

 

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A ray tracer puts my hello world efforts to shame

After I tried it I realised just how long it has been since I've used a compiled language (most recently I've been using PHP and Python and the last professional development I did was with Java).

 

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I realised recently just how easy it is to cross compile for another OS. By setting the GOOS environment variable to windows, linux, darwin (MacOS) or several other options you can develop on one OS and compile the executable for a different OS. Obviously it's only that simple if you don't use any OS specific libraries. But combined with the way Go generates a single executable (rather than relying on external libraries causing dependency hell) that could be a really useful facility.