Google I/O 2011: Writing Web Apps in Go
Overview
A Google I/O 2011 talk by Andrew Gerrand and Rob Pike on building and deploying a web application in Go. It argues that Go offers speed, reliability and simplicity together.
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HN commenters cite it as an early official Go talk, including Rob Pike's remarks that Go aims to be useful rather than theoretically exciting.
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Sources
Video by Google for Developers, played through YouTube.
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