# go

Playing with [go](http://golang.org). Late to the party, but it's fun,
I think.

## thoughts

- *fast*
- some level of *type-safety* (just scratched the surface so far)
- good *tool support* (fast (!) compilation, the `go` tool itself,
	fetching libraries built-in, though versioning is missing)
- *simple* (mostly, goroutines + no proper sync will bite you,
	thinking helps, as always)
- *pragmatic*, possibly similar to clojure in this respect (which is
    somewhat surprising to me)
- misc
    * [cross compilation][] is surprisingly painless

[cross compilation]: http://dave.cheney.net/2012/09/08/an-introduction-to-cross-compilation-with-go

## links

- Andreas Linz has written a [handy reference](https://github.com/KLINGTdotNET/get-go-ing)
    while going through [the Go tour][go tour], that I like to use.

[go tour]: https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1

## qst - run things quickly (and easily)

`qst` has already grown up, it now lives [in it's own place](https://github.com/heyLu/qst).
You can get it using `go get github.com/heyLu/qst`.

intended to be run in unfamilar environments, you pass it a file or a
directory and it tries to detect what it is and how to run it.

run `qst .` to run anything.

## Lingua evalia - evaluate anything!

Lingua evalia has also grown up recently, it now lives [on it's own](https://github.com/heyLu/linguaevalia)
as well. You can get it using `go get github.com/heyLu/linguaevalia` and
then start it by running `$GOPATH/bin/linguaevalia`.

Lingua evalia is a web service and a command line tool that allows you
to run code in any language quickly and easily. Using the web server
is simple: you open the site, start writing code and then press
`ctrl-enter` to evaluate it.