Betting on Go
summary
HashiCorp chooses Go in 2012 and ships Packer 2013 as the first Go product, then rewrites core infra so Consul, Nomad, Vault and Terraform run as single static binaries compiled across platforms and handle tens of thousands of nodes. Benefits are practical: concise concurrency primitives, a rich standard library, interface-based duck typing and easy cross-compilation. Pain points are concrete: primitive error strings, fragmented logging, messy early vendoring and no generics. Upgrading Go yields real wins — around a 10% speed boost between releases.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 4:56Desktop Applications
- 12:11Speed Boost
- 16:06Tuples
- 22:21Generics
- 27:13Logging
- 30:53Verbosity
- 32:31Questions
