[openstack-dev] Openstack rewrite in Go

Mark Atwood mark.atwood at hp.com
Sun Apr 14 19:01:30 UTC 2013


On the other hand, do please feel free to write OpenStack client libraries
in Go!

..m

Mark Atwood <mark.atwood at hp.com>
Director of Open Source Evangelism for HP Cloud Services
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On Sun, Apr 14, 2013 at 11:30 AM, Monty Taylor <mordred at inaugust.com> wrote:

> Hi Matthew!
>
> I'm sure someone has thought of porting/re-writing OpenStack in go.
> However, I think we're fairly all-in on Python at this point, and I'll
> list a couple of reasons I believe that to be true:
>
> - OpenStack isn't just the software - it's also largely the community.
> We have hundreds of active contributors - retraining them on another
> language, and re-tooling all of our tooling and automation to deal with
> another language would be kinda massive undertaking.
>
> - Changing something that massive would need an actual problem that it's
> solving. In this case of the performance issues referenced in that post
> - I don't think it's likely that we're hitting those sorts of issues in
> our code, given the nature of the problem we're solving.
>
> Monty
>
> On 04/14/2013 07:11 AM, Matthew Sherborne wrote:
> > Sorry for the crazy sounding subject.
> >
> > Has anyone thought of porting/re-writing openstack in a more efficient
> > language such as Go ?
> >
> > I've considered it in the past and thought it far too hard to do, but I
> > just read this article: http://jmoiron.net/blog/whats-going-on/
> >
> > ... and I was wondering if there is anyone else out there with similar
> > sentiments ?
> >
> > In my mind, 'go' does seem like it was almost designed for the task of
> > writing openstack.
> >
> > All replies welcome. If I'm acting insane, please feel free to tell me.
> >
> > Many Thanks,
> > Matthew Sherborne
> >
> >
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