An Introduction to Go for .NET Developers

Speaker: James Nugent Go is one of the most exciting languages around today. Led by C and UNIX luminaries Ken Thompson and Rob Pike (among others), it was announced to the public in November 2009 and has become the tool of choice across many different areas, especially around operations tooling because of the get things done attitude of the community and designers. Go has the benefit of being a very straightforward way of writing cross-platform code that's statically compiled, requiring no additional runtimes to be installed on deployment targets. In this talk we'll introduce the Go language and ecosystem from the perspective of someone coming from a .NET-focused background. We'll cover the basics of the syntax, introduce the concurrency mechanism, write a concurrent network server from scratch, and look at some of the practices and idioms you'll need to get going.