Re: [go-nuts] My views on Go and why it's better than Scripting

2018-03-05 Thread dorival . pedroso
Awesome! I'll read the paper too. Thanks! On Monday, March 5, 2018 at 5:31:06 PM UTC-8, kortschak wrote: > > This was essentially my thinking in choosing Go to write my > bioinformatics library in - mainly because much of our code will be > written and maintained by students, but we want goo

Re: [go-nuts] My views on Go and why it's better than Scripting

2018-03-05 Thread Dan Kortschak
This was essentially my thinking in choosing Go to write my bioinformatics library in - mainly because much of our code will be written and maintained by students, but we want good performance as well. Some of my thought about this are in this paper https://www.biorxiv.org /content/early/2014/05/1

[go-nuts] My views on Go and why it's better than Scripting

2018-03-02 Thread dorival . pedroso
Hi, I could be wrong (please correct me ;-), but here you are what I think about Go: INTRODUCTION Computers and software were initially developed for scientific computing; e.g., ALGOL and FORTRAN from the 1950s! Therefore, several computer languages and libraries have been invented and are used