First Meetup

Because who doesn't like awesome?

select {
case <-time.After(time.Second):
    // run timeout code
case result := <-requests:
	// run result code
}
		

Pointers and structs!

import "fmt"

type Awesome struct {
    HowAwesome int
    reason     string
    randomPntr *func()
}

var printCool = func() { fmt.Println("go is so cool") }

func main() {
    a := Awesome{
        HowAwesome: 5,
        reason:     "just because",
        randomPntr: &printCool,
    }

    (*a.randomPntr)()
}
		

But seriously...why?

A couple reasons

• Lightening fast build times (that scale)
• Lightening fast code
• Lightening fast developers... or at least faster than before
• Concurrency
• Deployment
• Great tools in the language (fmt, imports, test, pprof, race detector)
• Great frameworks already appearing (Revel, Martini, Gorilla, gorp)
• You "can't" write bad code (go at least makes this more difficult to do)
• It makes programming fun again!

Why this Meetup?

• Go is growing, and I want to help share how amazing it is with others!
• Learning/projects/feedback ---> open source community

What do you want out of it?

Some fun links

Drop me a line!