Go for the Rubyist: Appropriation of Great Ideas in Ruby by Dave Grijalva

1,000 views · Published 19 January 2012 · 44:16 · Indexed 25 September 2026

Channel: Confreaks · 2012 · Science & Technology

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The Go programming language, invented at Google, brings a novel new approach to parallel programming. With a strong focus on developer productivity and software readability, Go shares a lot of design philosophy with Ruby while targeting a different set of problems. Though the use of new language primitives, goroutines and channels, Go applications can solve programs in a highly parallel fashion without the use of locks.

This talk introduces the Go programming language, discusses the innovative parts of the language's design, and demonstrates how these concepts can be applied to Ruby.

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