Hacking with Andrew and Brad: an HTTP/2 client in Go [video]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yG-UaBJXZ80

by kid0m4n • 11 years ago

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kid0m4n3• 11 years ago

Would love to see this being done in other languages!

I commented something similar on the first installment of this, but again, in general, regardless of language or content, it's always nice to watch/listen to people pair up on something and compare it to how I work (either alone or with someone else).

xrd2• 11 years ago

This is wonderful, and as a side effect clearly shows that emacs is much better than vim.

enneff4• 11 years ago

Well, it was Brad's machine, so my vim environment wasn't set up as it is normally. Not really a fair comparison. :-)

xrd2• 11 years ago

Can I modify my comment to say that this presentation changed my mind about Vim because it shows it can coexist with Emacs?

percept• 11 years ago

Oh, I thought it looked a little plain. ;)

vhost-• 11 years ago

Phew! I thought Acme had ruined you and you were all about that no-syntax highlighting.

What did you use to switch between emacs and vim? It seemed like a quick hot-key.

rxaxm• 11 years ago

brad has a fairly light-weight go setup for emacs. from what i can tell, he just has gofmt run on save and the go import plugin that reads his code and adds/removes import statements appropriately.

mine includes auto-complete (that is conscious of the AST) and linting/error checking. i suspect brad has jump-to-definition and the other stuff that comes with the go emacs mode, but he doesn't use it.

WestCoastJustin• 11 years ago

Amazing! Just the presentation style alone, pair programming, talking to the camera and explaining their thought process, dual computers. Wow, this is pretty slick! It is like having a mentor right there.

bradfitz• 11 years ago

Glad you liked it! We enjoy making them.

kid0m4n3• 11 years ago

Could I suggest also recording an episode when you actually gear up to merge this into master?

ctrlrsf• 11 years ago

Please keep them coming. Will watch every single one, multiple times! Loved hearing your thought process and confidence with what was being typed. Now when I code I pretend I'm talking to either of you. It's not weird, right?

callmekatootie• 11 years ago

Please make more of them.

petercooper• 11 years ago

Not to take away from the awesome videos now, but I'm a bit sad we won't see anything like this from the LiveJournal/memcached/Danga era - that would have been great watching, I suspect, from my memory of yours and whitaker's posts :-D

staunch• 11 years ago

These are great. It's very valuable to see how you guys approach problems in Go, given that you're among the two most experienced users. Really hope you guys keep doing them.

lynxbat• 11 years ago

This was awesome. Do more please.

vkat• 11 years ago

This was fun to watch. Thanks, fyi video card is full at 1:42

atonse• 11 years ago

Loving this video so far - showed it to my wife and described it to her as "check out this video... two dudes sitting on a couch programming, but they are really smart dudes tackling tough problems so it's fascinating", needless to say, she was amused.

This reminds me of Peepcode's play by play, but they're building real things.

michaelchisari• 11 years ago

Go is such an elegant and compact language.

caipre• 11 years ago

Really interesting to watch, thanks for doing this.

Anyone else really impressed by their development speed? I've not used Go and following someone else in an editor can be difficult, but it took me some effort to keep up: you guys never slowed down for nearly two hours!

Did you ever find out why ip.appspot.com yielded "Bad Request"?

Intermernet• 11 years ago

TL;DR: Sending both `Host` and `:authority` headers is apparently against the spec.

Some discussion on /r/golang : https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/2x626t/hacking_with...

cyber1• 11 years ago

Go really simple and elegant language! Good video.

plug2• 11 years ago

Slightly off-topic, but the use of 'an' as the indefinite article in the phrase 'an HTTP' always seems really weird to my brain.

In Ireland we seem to learn a less "rounded" version of the letter H when we learn the alphabet - I assume this comes from Irish language pronunciation. It sounds much more like "hay-ch" than "aych", really emphasising that initial 'h'.

So, thinking about it, I guess 'a HTTP' probably sounds pretty weird to every other native English speaker in the world :)

Anyone else out there prefer 'a HTTP' over 'an HTTP'?

Back on topic: I really enjoyed the last two hacking sessions, it's really edifying to see the process. More please!

enneff4• 11 years ago

You're in the minority with your pronouncation of 'h', but are far from alone: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H#Name_in_English

plug2• 11 years ago

Thanks! Fascinating. Good to know I am not alone :)

Hacking with Andrew and Brad: an HTTP/2 client in Go [video]

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