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Interviews: Ask Alan Donovan and Brian Kernighan About Programming and Go
Alan Donovan is a member of Google’s Go team in New York and holds computer science degrees
from Cambridge and MIT. Since 2005, he has worked at Google on infrastructure projects and was the co-designer of its proprietary build system, Blaze. Brian Kernighan is a professor in the Computer Science Department at Princeton University. He was a member of technical staff in the Computing Science Research Center at Bell Labs, where he worked on languages and tools for Unix. He is the co-author of several books, including The C Programming Language, and The Practice of Programming. Recently, the pair have co-authored a soon to be released book titled The Go Programming Language. Alan and Brian have agreed to give us some of their time to answer any questions you may have about the upcoming book, Go, and programming in general. Ask as many questions as you'd like, but please keep them to one per post.
AC was referring to the fact you need to run all OpenGL code from same thread. Go's goroutines are not guaranteed to run on same thread (unless you do some black magic sorcerery).
I'd be a Go programmer today except for this. Every major programming platform in use today has a module system to manage dependencies except Go. Go gives you "go get" to haul gobs of source into your tree, after which you get to build and maintain the mess.
The Go folks cop-out and say this problem is one "for the community." Well, it has been six years and "the community" is still schlepping around, making messes with "go get" and inventing bad workarounds for the projects.
Got a plan for this? You should.
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Seeing as how it was created after the Internet was big, and one is constantly searching the Internet about the programming language one using, wouldn't you want a distinct name so search results are what the programmer wants? "Go" is the 35th most common word in the English language.
Try searching for "golang".
I usually use the following method: https://play.golang.org/p/iF_d... - Attempting to run this will give a compile error. Once you implement MyType.Foo(); it will compile and run successfully.
The only added part is line 10.
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Instead of linking your app to OpenGL you can instead create a separate process that will do that and communicate to it through a socket. You know, like X11 does. This way you are not putting driver guts in your process space like Win 3.1 used to do. See http://msharov.github.io/gleri... for an example.
Exactly. If I search for "C" only three of the top ten results are about the programming language.
Java is LICENSED by Oracle who doesn't give out the source code... Go is BSD licensed and has source code so you can build your own copy.
Check with Oracle about the terms they use if you want to distribute their Java Virtual Machine in a commercial product. I can assure you it involves you providing them with cash before they will let you even distribute Java, unmodified, as part of your product. I know this from experience. I'll warn you, Java from Oracle does NOT come cheap if you wish to distribute it. Sure they will let you and your customer download it for free, but they want their cut if you download and distribute Java to a customer.
With Go, there will be no such restriction. You can build and distribute Go to your hearts content w/o paying anybody even if you charge for it. You can embed Go in a project, modify it and sell it without having to give up your source code (as I read the license) as long as you leave the BSD license alone.
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Sure, here's one from Russ Cox: https://news.ycombinator.com/i... Ultimately, those criticisms are not very interesting, because as a Go programmer these are tools you use as an end-user, not something which dictates how you program, and can and will be improved behind the scenes.
Sorry, was late last night. LiteIDE is a go-centric ide with lots of great hooks for that language. I run it on Linux, OSX and Win10.
https://code.google.com/p/liteide/
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