Backend Banter #028 - Learning Go: A Discussion of the Language with the Author, Jon Bodner
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Nov 20, 2023 Author of 'Learning Go' discusses writing the book and transitioning from Java to Go. They explore stability and trade-offs in software development. Balancing customer experience and reliability in mission-critical software. Sidecar applications and challenges in transitioning to Go. Favorite tools in the Go space and the challenges of immutability.
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Go Book Origins
- Jon Bodner met Carmen Andoh (Google) and mentioned wanting to write a Go book.
- At GopherCon, Andoh connected Bodner with an O'Reilly editor, leading to the book deal after a baseball game.
Learning Languages
- Write small, practical programs when learning a new language.
- Building something like a Lisp interpreter, however small, helps internalize the language's nuances.
Java's Indirectness
- Spring's annotation-driven style promotes implicit dependencies.
- This can cause runtime errors due to unexpected implementations, as experienced by Jon Bodner.