DevConf.cz 2016

How many times, when writing yet another collection of getters and setters, you've dreamed about lightweight features available in dynamic languages? What if I tell you there's a language that combines the best of both worlds: static and dynamic typing? This language offers ease of writing code, with advanced features such as a very efficient garbage collector and support for highly-scalable software architecture, just to name a few. Have you ever wondered what all the fuss is about Go? Why top companies such as Google, Red Hat, Docker, and CoreOS, just to name a few, have chosen to develop their products (Kubernetes, OpenShift, etc.) in Go? If you answered yes to at least one of those questions, this presentation is for you. I'm going to share my experience from transitioning from a long-time Java developer to a Go-dev in mere days. That’s all the effort it took to feel comfortable in the extensive ecosystem surrounding the Go language (also known as “Go-land”). Once there, you'll be programming in an "expressive, concise, clean, efficient (...), fast, statically typed, compiled language that feels like a dynamically typed, interpreted language".