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Building Desktop Utilities in Go

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October 23, 2014
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Building Desktop Utilities in Go

Talk I did about building programs in go and some useful libraries that make building them easier.
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October 23, 2014
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Transcript

  1. Building Desktop Utilities in Go

  2. Libraries

  3. Flag import “flag”

  4. fsnotify import "gopkg.in/fsnotify.v1"

  5. Recursive fsnotify

  6. Recursive fsnotify

  7. Curses import "github.com/nsf/termbox-go"

  8. None
  9. None

  10. Building your own Libraries & Binaries

  11. None
  12. None

  13. Why?

  14. None

  15. programs

  16. –Some old dude “Do one thing and do it well.”

  17. None

  18. Phoenix theme synchronization for everybody

  19. •shopify_theme (ruby) - janky •gothemego (go) - ¯\(°_o)/¯ •themebox (ruby

    & rails) - slow

  20. –me on debugging every shopify_theme Windows issue ever “I’ll try

    to replicate this when I get home”

  21. Why Go over X?

  22. Halp!

  23. Questions?

  24. • Libraries • http://github.com/csaunders/phoenix • https://github.com/howeyc/fsnotify • https://github.com/nsf/termbox-go • http://golang.org/pkg/flag/

    • Articles • https://inconshreveable.com/09-09-2014/sweat-the- small-stuff/ • http://arslan.io/ten-useful-techniques-in-go • https://medium.com/@benbjohnson/structuring- applications-in-go-3b04be4ff091