[openstack-dev] [swift] Go! Swift!

Ryan Brown rybrown at redhat.com
Thu Apr 30 18:18:03 UTC 2015


On 04/30/2015 01:54 PM, Clint Byrum wrote:
> * Go's import and build system is rather odd. Python's weird distribution
>   issues are at least well known in the OpenStack community. This is
>   actually the main reason I've never gravitated toward Go, as I feel
>   it is trying to be magical rather than logical. I imagine there are
>   others who are also nervous about that.

I don't think it tries to be "magical", it tries to be developer
friendly by default, and lets your VCS handle versioning your
dependencies. It just so happens version control systems are great at that.

-- 
Ryan Brown / Software Engineer, Openstack / Red Hat, Inc.



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