happy birthday Go!
http://blog.golang.org/2011/11/go-programming-language-turns-two.html
For the non-programmers among you, Go is a programming language created by some incredibly smart and talented people over at Google.
I have been intrigued by Go since the day it came out. I’ve never had the time to sit down and actually learn the language, though.
Every year the Go team announces that their brainchild is a year older… and every year I say something like:
Oh wow? It’s <x> years old already? I thought it came out like… last month….
Today, that all changes. I’ve decided to buckle down and learn a new language, and it’s going to be Go.
I’ll be honest, although I do love computer languages, I try to avoid the politics behind them. I have no idea where Go will be in a few months, or even a few years.
Regardless, it’s a great language, and I’m really excited to write my new project in it: goChanner.
goChanner will be a text-based tool for reading and archiving threads from a multitude of Futaba style image boards.
You may be wondering: “why do we need a textual tool to read imageboards?”
I don’t know about you, but I can’t browse *chans at work because they usually have NSFW images. I want a simple tool to read and reply to threads without the hassle of trying to hide images.
Anyways: that’s what I’ll be doing for the next several weeks to several months. Learning Go, and writing my new project.
Cheers!
