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Hi, I'm Stan, this project's creator. I will explain your questions later. But before that please check out our sample site (written in Goby): http://sample.go

by st0012 9y ago

Hi, I'm Stan, this project's creator. I will explain your questions later. But before that please check out our sample site (written in Goby): http://sample.goby-lang.org/ http://sample.goby-lang.org/ And our plugin system, which is Goby's coolest feature: https://goby-lang.gitbooks.io/goby/content/plugin-system.html https://goby-lang.gitbooks.io/goby/content/plugin-system.htm...

cies 9y ago
Congrats on the release! I have one question: why Go? I would have expected Rust I guess, or OCaml or something.
- st0012 9y ago
  Thanks! I think Go does good work at concurrency support, so using it can save me a lot time dealing with concurrency. And in my opinion Go is simple to learn, which can make others contributing it more easily. For example, this is only my second Go project, and most of Goby contributors haven't written any Go code before (of course I spent some time guiding them). The last reason is that I think Go has a relatively big community and ecosystem. It'll be more easy for me to finding resources.
oelmekki 9y ago
Congratulation, and best wishes :) When things settle down, I would love to read an article from you about what it's like to launch a new programming language by the end of the 2010s. I'm under the impression that adoption is going way faster than in previous decade, when php, java and C/C++ were kings hard to revoke. But there's still a gap of few years between initial announcement of a language and it being used in the wild - which is quite understandable, because people want to be sure the language will stick around before writing production code with it. I would love to know what you do during those years, how you grow your language, how you simply manage to use it at work, or for your own projects. If you could write such article, that would be awesome :)
- st0012 9y ago
  Thanks! I'll try to share my experience to others by writing posts or giving a talk on conf. But actually Goby is just 6 months old, so you might need a while :)

by st0012 9y ago

cies 9y ago

Congrats on the release! I have one question: why Go? I would have expected Rust I guess, or OCaml or something.

st0012 9y ago
Thanks! I think Go does good work at concurrency support, so using it can save me a lot time dealing with concurrency. And in my opinion Go is simple to learn, which can make others contributing it more easily. For example, this is only my second Go project, and most of Goby contributors haven't written any Go code before (of course I spent some time guiding them). The last reason is that I think Go has a relatively big community and ecosystem. It'll be more easy for me to finding resources.

oelmekki 9y ago

Congratulation, and best wishes :) When things settle down, I would love to read an article from you about what it's like to launch a new programming language by the end of the 2010s. I'm under the impression that adoption is going way faster than in previous decade, when php, java and C/C++ were kings hard to revoke. But there's still a gap of few years between initial announcement of a language and it being used in the wild - which is quite understandable, because people want to be sure the language will stick around before writing production code with it. I would love to know what you do during those years, how you grow your language, how you simply manage to use it at work, or for your own projects. If you could write such article, that would be awesome :)

st0012 9y ago
Thanks! I'll try to share my experience to others by writing posts or giving a talk on conf. But actually Goby is just 6 months old, so you might need a while :)