OpenPGP support in Go

http://www.imperialviolet.org/2011/06/12/goopenpgp.html

by cannedprimates • 15 years ago

29 11 15 years ago

Anyone else think it may be time to look seriously at learning Go?

abofh• 15 years ago

I've been playing with it off and on for over a year now -- it's definitely worth learning -- it'll shape your perspectives, and as a more-and-more viable substitute for other compiled languages, it's really quite nice.

cannedprimates• 15 years ago

Absolutely - if only to be able to read things like Tonika and Doozer.

joeyespo• 15 years ago

It's a fun language with a lot of potential.

Even after playing with it and reading a lot about it, I still picked up a few additional things from this article: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2631964

I'd say that's a good place to start if you're still not quite convinced it's worth it.

flogic• 15 years ago

I've been looking for a decent personal project for Go for a while now. It looks like a nice fusion of ideas.

aaronblohowiak2• 15 years ago

I looked into it. Go neither provides you the safety of immutable data structures nor the freedom of direct memory manipulation. You're still expected to track who "owns" what struct so you can avoid concurrency conflicts, though it does provide nice mechanisms to pass that ownership along (in the form of thread-safe buffered queues.)

I am going with libtask and zmq in C for now.

kjksf• 15 years ago

How come you're not bothered by C's numerous deficiencies, like being the one language responsible for majority of security issues, ease of corrupting memory, tediousness of manually managing memory and the fact that half of professional programmers can't decipher C type declarations of medium complexity (http://www.infoq.com/presentations/ECC-Fun-Writing-Compilers).

If safety is your goal, Go certainly gives you more of it than C.

If "freedom to directly manipulate" things is your goal, Go gives you more of it than all other languages. Go has unsafe package which gives you exactly the same freedom to manipulate random bits in memory as C. And if that's not enough, Go natively supports assembly.

Go is interesting because on a spectrum of efficiency and easy of programming, it gives you both very good ease of programming and a good efficiency. C gives you efficiency but no ease of programming. Python and Ruby give ease of programming but no efficiency.

If you looked at Go, it must have been from a very, very far away.

tomjen3• 15 years ago

No - I looked at it, but when I need such a low level language I want the added control I get from C/C++ and the ceremony needed to get Go to do something is almost as much as these languages.

Personally I will stick with Scala, Java (for Android) and C++ (for when performance actually matter).

I guess it would have been different if Go had been available ten years ago. Now it feels like D, a good idea with a good implementation, whose time has come and gone.

Aloisius• 15 years ago

I for one look forward to an endless stream of "X support in Go" and "Y reimplemented in Go" posts over the next few years.

And judging from the last 20 years of programming language evangelism/flame wars, I completely expect to see "X support in AnotherLanguage" and "Y reimplemented in AnotherLanguage" posts followed up by "How AnotherLanguage is so much better than Go" and "AnotherLanguage vs. Go."

Sadly, what we'll never see is a retrospective along the lines of, "Did we waste all our time reinventing the wheel in AnotherLanguage?"

dchest• 15 years ago

If X is an OpenPGP implementation, I support this. We need more implementations of this standard.

OpenPGP support in Go

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