Ruby and Go
summary
Compares idiomatic Go and Ruby with concrete code samples, argues every web developer benefits from up-front error handling and small, composable packages, shows interfaces like io.Writer enabling wide reuse, and documents a real Braintree experiment: a small CRUD service built in Go later replaced with Ruby after a Postgres driver corrupted data under concurrent load. Notes practical tradeoffs: explicit errors everywhere, no generics, excellent tooling and CSP-style concurrency.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Ruby and Go
- 4:12The Go Agenda
- 4:41Small, generic packages
- 10:21Composition, not inheritance
- 11:54Actually that's a bad example
- 12:24A really, really, good interface
- 13:23Generic interfaces are great
- 16:11Up-front error handling
- 16:47Treat errors like data
- 18:53Compare with Ruby
- 21:14Go is very small
- 23:04Go is very explicit
- 23:47Learning more languages is AWESOME
- 25:01Recommended talks
- 26:01Have fun!
- 31:51Platinum Sponsor
- 32:01Silver Sponsors
