[plug] What programming languages are popular in Perth?

[Luke Woollard]

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On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 5:20 PM, James Henstridge <james at jamesh.id.au> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:58 PM, Fred Janon <fjanon at yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Hi James,
>>
>> Did you convince your clients to use Go or just do it in Go and your clients don't care?
>
> The projects I work on are ones we maintain long term, so I guess we
> don't really have the same restrictions placed on people doing short
> term consulting jobs.  So it is more a question about what we will be
> able to maintain ourselves.
>
> We have a list of preferred technologies for use in projects (so we
> don't have everyone picking their favourite), and Go has been added to
> that list.
>
> It was picked because it provides a nice balance between the speed and
> memory usage of low level languages like C, while also having some of
> the ease-of-use and safety benefits of a language like Python.  Having
> concurrency primitives baked into the language doesn't hurt either,
> given the way hardware has been developing over the last 10 years.
>
> We haven't stopped using C and Python, but as we're looking at
> migrating desktop technology to mobile platforms, memory and CPU usage
> become more immediate concerns.
>
> James.
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