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[443.62 --> 444.54] You end up with
[444.54 --> 447.06] what is called a context data structure
[447.06 --> 448.20] and that data structure
[448.20 --> 450.06] has everything laid out
[450.06 --> 451.10] in a way that's very easy
[451.10 --> 452.52] for you to access and consume.
[453.18 --> 455.96] So your code is very terse
[455.96 --> 457.26] and very clean.
[459.30 --> 461.18] The GoaGen tool
[461.18 --> 462.38] that comes with Goa,
[462.80 --> 464.52] which is the code generation tool,
[465.02 --> 467.58] also generates a client package
[467.58 --> 468.86] and a client tool.
[469.52 --> 471.80] So that's also been very neat
[471.80 --> 474.36] because one issue is
[474.36 --> 475.82] when you create an API,
[476.48 --> 478.04] obviously the point is
[478.04 --> 479.22] for the API to be consumed.
[479.82 --> 481.10] And what tends to happen
[481.10 --> 482.34] is that every team
[482.34 --> 483.78] consuming the tool
[483.78 --> 485.94] will develop their own client
[485.94 --> 487.68] and they will all
[487.68 --> 490.30] become out of date
[490.30 --> 491.30] and they will all have
[491.30 --> 492.36] small discrepancies
[492.36 --> 494.70] and things start creeping up,
[494.84 --> 496.22] which make the whole thing
[496.22 --> 497.70] more difficult to evolve.
[498.72 --> 499.62] And so having that
[499.62 --> 501.00] being generated automatically
[501.00 --> 503.02] means that the team
[503.02 --> 504.46] that provides the API
[504.46 --> 506.42] also provides the client
[506.42 --> 507.88] and everybody uses
[507.88 --> 508.66] that one client.
[508.84 --> 509.68] And so it makes
[509.68 --> 510.52] everything consistent
[510.52 --> 512.92] and helps other teams
[512.92 --> 514.78] consume the API.
[515.80 --> 516.36] And GoaGen also
[516.36 --> 517.34] generates documentation
[517.34 --> 518.98] in the form of a Swagger
[518.98 --> 520.30] and JSON schema
[520.30 --> 522.10] so that you can,
[522.20 --> 523.06] at any point in time,
[523.22 --> 524.82] share the design
[524.82 --> 525.80] to other people
[525.80 --> 526.90] that may not be familiar
[526.90 --> 528.22] with the Goa DSL.
[528.86 --> 530.18] And you can use it also
[530.18 --> 531.18] to document the API
[531.18 --> 532.88] once it's in running production.
[533.62 --> 534.94] So all of that
[534.94 --> 536.26] makes for a very nice
[536.26 --> 538.86] way of developing APIs
[538.86 --> 540.40] and very efficient
[540.40 --> 541.22] way of doing it.
[541.86 --> 543.40] So I have two comments.
[543.72 --> 545.10] I found Goa
[545.10 --> 547.32] in October, November,
[547.44 --> 548.20] I guess, of last year.
[548.54 --> 550.30] And two things struck me
[550.30 --> 552.14] immediately when I saw Goa.
[552.20 --> 552.96] The first was that
[552.96 --> 554.06] the generated code
[554.06 --> 555.32] looked handwritten.
[555.86 --> 557.68] And I have to commend you
[557.68 --> 558.90] for that because for me
[558.90 --> 559.86] that was the most impressive
[559.86 --> 560.72] part of the project
[560.72 --> 562.70] was that all other
[562.70 --> 564.72] code generation facilities
[564.72 --> 565.48] I've seen before,
[565.60 --> 566.32] it's really clear
[566.32 --> 568.64] that it's generated code
[568.64 --> 570.84] and it doesn't feel idiomatic.
[571.00 --> 572.10] It doesn't feel like Go.
[572.30 --> 573.46] It feels like somebody
[573.46 --> 574.62] generated some Go code.
[574.80 --> 577.20] So having that generated code
[577.20 --> 577.94] in Goa
[577.94 --> 579.56] look so handwritten
[579.56 --> 581.26] was very impressive for me.
[581.96 --> 582.70] Well, thank you.
[582.86 --> 583.26] Yeah, I mean,
[583.30 --> 584.00] that was definitely
[584.00 --> 584.88] a design goal.
[585.66 --> 585.84] You know,
[585.92 --> 587.98] when I started Goa,
[588.10 --> 590.34] I was a little bit
[590.34 --> 591.88] not afraid,
[591.98 --> 592.92] but I was a little bit worried
[592.92 --> 595.04] about the reception
[595.04 --> 595.88] that the Go community
[595.88 --> 596.34] would have
[596.34 --> 597.40] because I know that
[597.40 --> 598.58] the Go programmers
[598.58 --> 599.34] are very,
[599.46 --> 601.24] not picky,