On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:39:55 +0000 Ben Merrills <b.merrills@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Nice work Lefteris! Out of interest, why go? > > Skrusty Thank you Ben, I have been spending some time with Go lately and I find it ideal for this kind of applications. The 'batteries included' standard lib makes development very easy when dealing with things like networking, encryption etc. It's a simple language making it easy to get familiar with and you discover that you can get really productive very fast. Seems like a sweet compromise between low-level/system and scripting languages. Has a familiar 'C feeling' but at the same time offers memory safety and decent performance, less memory hungry than Java much faster than a scripting language without requiring lots and lots of code for the most common tasks. If you have a look at the code you will see how compact agitator is while offering quite a few features. Compiles really fast and has a nice tool set (profiler, race detector etc). And finally makes application distribution really simple, just a big, fat, statically compiled binary that you can copy and run everywhere without worrying about dependencies. Lefteris Zafiris _______________________________________________ asterisk-app-dev mailing list asterisk-app-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.digium.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/asterisk-app-dev
