[Gluster-devel] A Year with Go

[Krishnan Parthasarathi]

Here are some of the reasons why we are considering Go for
the next version of GlusterD.

- Existing C code already uses abstractions that come along
with Go, like coroutines, fan-out I/O minus the channels.

- Go promises lesser developement time than C.

- Go has bindings for consul/etcd APIs and in general has a rich
library ecosystem.

- Deployment is easy with the single executable, no shared libraries model.

- Debugging live programs may be difficult especially with goroutines in the mix,
but that's true with synctasks (our coroutines implementation) too!



----- Original Message -----
> Parts of OpenStack Swift are also being re-written in Go, FYI.
> http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2015-April/063019.html
> https://github.com/openstack/swift/tree/feature/hummingbird/go
> 
> 
> Regards,
>  -Prashanth Pai
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Atin Mukherjee" <atin.mukherjee83 at gmail.com>
> > To: "Justin Clift" <justin at gluster.org>
> > Cc: "Gluster Devel" <gluster-devel at gluster.org>
> > Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2015 7:45:19 AM
> > Subject: Re: [Gluster-devel] A Year with Go
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > Interesting Justin, thanks for sharing.
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Atin
> > 
> > Sent from Samsung Galaxy S4
> > On 6 Jun 2015 06:16, "Justin Clift" < justin at gluster.org > wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > Potentially relevant to a GlusterD rewrite, since we've
> > mentioned Go as a possibility a few times:
> > 
> > https://vagabond.github.io/rants/2015/06/05/a-year-with-go/
> > https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9668302
> > 
> > + Justin
> > 
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