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**Erik St. Martin:** I did, I did... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Awesome! |
**Erik St. Martin:** ...and it still wasn't able to track down... It's gotta be another system call being called by another system call. I eventually gave up. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** If anybody knew about set comp and Docker, it would be Jess. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, I told her I knew she had fun with stuff like that. I didn't think she thought "fun" was the proper word for it. \[laughter\] It can be fun to dig into these things sometimes, because you always come out the other side learning a lot more. On the other hand, when you have deadlines to meet, y... |
Okay, so did we have anything else we wanted to talk about before we close out the show for today? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I can't think of anything. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Me neither. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** We were all over the map today, good show. |
**Erik St. Martin:** It's been fun. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's the ADHD edition of GoTime FM. |
**Erik St. Martin:** It's the "I forgot to take my Adderall" edition. \[laughter\] With that, I want to thank everybody who's still on the show, and Blake, if you listen to this when it's recorded, I wanna thank you again for coming on the show. Thanks to everybody who's listening live and interacting with us through S... |
Huge shout out to our sponsors Linode and Code School for making this happen. Especially Linode, for being the provider of our new Changelog system. Again, if you have not seen that site, please go look at it because it is awesome and everybody worked really hard. |
We should put in the show notes links to people's Twitter handles so everybody can thank all the people responsible for making it happen. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** And don't forget Fastly, for their awesome CDN and for making the wise decision to hire Carlisia. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** \[laughs\] |
**Erik St. Martin:** That's our favorite part of all, that they hired Carlisia. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Well, I wanna say that I put the GopherCon Brazil website on the Fastly networking, which by the way, they are comping, so it's free... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Wow... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** And there's this site called webpagetest.org where enter your URL and you get grades for different aspects of your website - it mostly hast to do with speed - and it went from an F to an A. It was amazing. I didn't even tweak anything on the Fastly site, because there were a lot of things I can t... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** \[56:03\] Wow... I'm testing GopherCon.com right now, because I've gotta know. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Test all the things, this is awesome. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's cool. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Alright, so where did I leave off? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** You were congratulating the panel and thanking the listeners. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yes, and if you have not subscribed already, gotime.fm, you can subscribe. Eventually, we're going to get a weekly email going out, so make sure to sign up there, follow us on Twitter if you're not, we're @GoTimeFM. If you want to be on the show or have suggestions for topics or guests, please subm... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Thank you. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Thanks everyone, bye. |
• Introduction and show notes for GoTime episode #28 |
• Interview with Thorsten Ball about his book "Writing An Interpreter in Go" |
• Background on Thorsten Ball and his work as a software developer from Germany |
• The language featured in the book, called Monkey, is a fictional language created by Thorsten for educational purposes |
• Discussion of the value of learning about compilers and interpreters, including fun aspects and gaining a deeper understanding of programming languages. |
• Importance of understanding the lower-level workings of software |
• Abstraction leakages: how high-level abstractions can hide complexity |
• Benefits of learning command-line interfaces and manual tool usage |
• Trade-off between productivity and understanding implementation details |
• Value of understanding operating systems, databases, and other low-level technologies |
• Complexity of modern programming tools and systems |
• Importance of abstraction in programming |
• Limited time and mental capacity for learning all aspects of programming |
• Value of understanding low-level concepts like compilers and interpreters |
• Difference between compilers and interpreters |
• Interpreters can be thought of as compilers that execute source code in real-time |
• Compilers produce executable artifacts that can run independently |
• Grey areas between compilation and interpretation, such as just-in-time compilation |
• Just-in-time (JIT) compilation and its relation to compilers and interpreters |
• Difficulty of explaining compiler concepts due to scope and complexity |
• Importance of understanding assembly language, virtual machines, and bytecode for compiler development |
• Recommendation of the book "The Elements of Computing Systems" (Nand2Tetris) |
• Comparison of this book with other compiler books (e.g. Dragon Book) and its intended audience |
• Discussion on the need for handholding and clear explanations in technical writing |
• The book on Go interpreters has 200 pages of code snippets |
• Code in other compiler books is often outdated or pseudo-code and cannot be compiled |
• Author recommends typing out or following along with code to get a better understanding |
• There's a Coursera course available for learning about compilers and interpreters |
• The topic of impostor syndrome was discussed, particularly in relation to learning hardware and low-level development |
• Impostor syndrome and its effects on individuals, particularly in a community where others may seem more knowledgeable |
• The importance of self-improvement over comparing oneself to others |
• How conferences can perpetuate the perception that certain individuals are experts in their field |
• The reality behind writing books or creating complex projects, including research and revision involved |
• Examples of how people's perceptions can be misguided due to lack of knowledge about the process involved |
• Damian is the Head Gopher and has an extensive knowledge of whitepapers |
• The Go Blog has a survey to gather information on company use cases and adoption reasons |
• JetBrains has released a new IDE for Go called Gogland, which has been tested by participants |
• Discussion about Vim mode plugins in other editors |
• Conversation about using Notepad or basic text editors for coding |
• Syntax highlighting issues in Vim |
• Performance of Vim and syntax highlighting |
• Potential benefits of disabling syntax highlighting |
• Shout-outs to various projects: |
+ Buffalo Web Framework by Mark Bates |
+ Vim Go plugin by Fatih Arslan |
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