[Gluster-devel] [Gluster-users] Proposal for GlusterD-2.0

[Krishnan Parthasarathi]

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> On 05/09/2014, at 11:21 AM, Kaushal M wrote:
> <snip>
> > As part of the first phase, we aim to delegate the distributed
> > configuration store. We are exploring consul [1]
> 
> Does this mean we'll need to learn Go as well as C and Python?
> 
> If so, that doesn't sound completely optimal. :/

consul is written in Go. I don't think that forces us to write our 
code in Go.

> 
> That being said, a lot of distributed/networked computing
> projects seem to be written in it these days.  Is Go specifically
> a good language for our kind of challenges, or is it more a case
> of "the new shiny"?

I would prefer to write new code in a language other than C. But that's
me. I haven't written a lot of Go to comment :-(

~KP