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All Blog Posts Tagged 'Go' (4)

Stripe's Capture the Flag 3

A few weeks ago, Stripe hosted their 3rd Capture the Flag competition. Their first two CTFs were focused on security where you had to exploit a vulnerability in a small system or application to move on to each level until the final level is completed.

For their 3rd CTF, they've decided to switch gears and focus on distributed systems. Each of the 5 CTF levels focused on a…

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Added by Daniel Nishimura on March 7, 2014 at 3:51pm — 2 Comments

Journey Through Go

A few years ago the release of the Go programming language was announced, but I ignored it until I recently

discovered it was being used on large back-end systems at Heroku and at Google. I also discovered that the Go team included Rob Pike (formerly from Bell Labs and member of the Unix team) and Ken Thompson (also from Bell Labs

and worked on Unix and…

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Added by Daniel Nishimura on May 4, 2012 at 2:30pm — 4 Comments

The Uprise of Compiled Languages

If you have previously checked out the online job postings for software developers, about 75% of them require Java,

C#/.NET, PHP, Flash/ActionScript, Ruby, Python, or Perl. In Hawaii, that percentage is probably between 90-95%. During the past decade or two, C, C++, and other compiled languages have taken a back seat to…

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Added by Daniel Nishimura on May 17, 2011 at 10:43am — 8 Comments

Google Go

I just read through the language spec and memory model for Go, Google's new language (thank you for the link Scott.) There are a lot of things l like about the language, such as its approach to concurrency, heavy use of type inference (which we also see in C# and Java 7), ruby-like array and map manipulation syntax, etc., but I'm not entirely sold on the type system. Go has no… Continue

Added by Daniel Leuck on November 11, 2009 at 2:00am — 21 Comments