Break Things on Purpose
Steve Francia
Feb 10, 2021
Steve Francia, Product and strategy lead at Google, discusses the creation of Hugo, tips for learning Go, and the significance of open source contributors. He highlights the importance of speed, simplicity, and community engagement in building reliable systems and applications.
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- Creating Hugo, a static site generator using Go, focused on speed and ease of use.
- Tips for new Go learners: learn idiomatic ways, avoid applying patterns from other languages.
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Creating Hugo: A Faster Static Site Generator
Steve Francia, the product lead for the Go programming language at Google, shared the story of creating Hugo, a static site generator. While retooling his website, he found existing tools slow and decided to use Go to build a faster alternative. Embraced by the open-source community, Hugo evolved with speed and ease of use as priorities, incorporating lessons from Drupal, WordPress, and MongoDB.
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