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**Erik St. Martin:** Right...? It's on my open tabs, where I have like 30 of them, like "Look at this later..." And then they graduate from -- I don't know whether it's "graduate", they probably demote from there into bookmarks, which sit there for... I think once a year I have to clean them all out, and I'm like "Man,... |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I wanna mention Matt's [Gobot Camp book](http://www.golangbootcamp.com/), which is online and free. We didn't talk about it, but I wanted to make sure we mentioned it. I actually used it to learn Go when I was starting out, so thank you, Matt! |
**Matt Aimonetti:** And it's open source... You're welcome. It's open source, it's also on GitHub, so if you add any items to it, if you want to make some changes, please feel free to send pull requests. If you're interested in helping me maintain it, I would also really welcome maintainers, since I don't have a lot of... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's awesome. I should look at that and see if there's any of the training materials that I've written over the last year that would be a good fit in there. I've got just tons of training material, so I'll definitely go check that out. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Awesome! |
**Erik St. Martin:** One of my favorite things about the Gokrazy thing is that the tools that they use for you to do on-device debugging, where you actually need to SSH in, is called Break Glass... \[laughter\] |
**Brian Ketelsen:** In case of emergency. There was one last interesting Go project that I wanted to mention, because this one has caught me several times, and I'm surprised nobody had thought of this - including myself - before. The Twitch team at github.com/TwitchTV released a vendoring project for binaries. |
I can think of dozens of applications that have binary helpers, and maybe the biggest one I can think of is Hugo, but there's also things like the ProtoGen compiler and other tools that you might need, especially in Goa, in Ponzu... A lot of the apps that I use have a binary component to them, and when you have a proje... |
This tool is called [Retool](https://github.com/twitchtv/retool), at TwitchTV GitHub, and it allows you to vendor basically your binary helper applications that go along with the app you're building. That's a brilliant idea. |
**Erik St. Martin:** That's interesting. I wonder how that works for different operating systems and architectures, because you might need a different binary. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** They allow you to vendor the source code or the binaries. They've got that covered. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Oh, that's cool. I'll have to look at that. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Yeah, speaking of Twitch, I do believe they also do some video processing in Go... Not too much, but I believe they do some. |
**Erik St. Martin:** That would be interesting. I know a lot of their chat stuff and I think some of the download stuff - they're doing a bunch of stuff in Go. I didn't know they were doing video processing in Go. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** I think they're doing some of it, yeah. And I think -- it might not be Comcast... There was another company who actually wrote an mpeg for a decoder in Go. I will have to find it and I'll send it to you guys once I find it. |
\[01:03:48.18\] I know when we discuss about video stuff, there was another company doing video processing in Go. It was pretty basic, but it looks like some other companies are working on it, too. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Nice. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Yeah, and I've seen some mpeg transport stream libraries and stuff like that, like MPEG-DASH and HLS... I've seen some of that stuff in Go. I wanna say I saw the mpeg library, too... That's quite possible it came out of Comcast, too. \[laughter\] There are so many different groups of people working... |
So did anybody else have any other projects they wanna talk about before we move into \#FreeSoftwareFriday? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** No. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** No. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** No. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Okay. Matt, if you're not familiar with this, every week we do a thing called \#FreeSoftwareFriday. Basically, we just give a shout out to a project or a maintainer of a project that makes our lives easier. It does not have to be in Go. It's just our way to support and give recognition to people wh... |
If you have that anybody in mind, you're welcome to participate; if not, that's fine, too. Anybody have a project maintainer they wanna give a shout out to? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** I'd like to give a shout out to [GitLab](https://gitlab.com/), who is first of all acquiring everybody under the sun - first Mattermost and now Gitter - but still maintaining a very decent alternative to GitHub that you can host yourself, and keeping a powerful community edition of it completely ope... |
**Erik St. Martin:** It's quite surprising how much functionality is in GitLab. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** They have everything: they've got CI, they've got chat, they've got Git, they've got GitLab Pages now... Everything you would need to run your own version of all of the tools that we're using in GitHub, and CI and all of that. Kind of nice. |
**Erik St. Martin:** And how about you, Carlisia? |
**Carlisia Thompson:** I don't have one today. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Okay. And Matt, did you have anybody? |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Yeah, I do... I'd like to thank [Ramya Rao](https://twitter.com/ramyanexus); she's the maintainer of the Visual Studio Code Go plugin. We had a Go survey the other day that came back, and VS Code is actually the second most editor after Vim for Go developers. She is not a Gopher; she only started le... |
I didn't really know she was the only one working on it until I contacted them and I realized, "Wow, she only spent a bit of her own free time making this Go extension better." And she added so many things... The debugger is better, you can generate tests for a function of one entire file, she's been working with diffe... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** It's interesting that you bring that up, because I got sucked down this rabbit hole last night - as I often do - and I was playing with writing my own editor for Go, and I ended up on the Monaco editor open source page where I found -- I think it was your issue about Go language server support from ... |
**Matt Aimonetti:** \[01:08:06.16\] Yeah, speaking of which, really quickly... [Sourcegraph](https://sourcegraph.com) released a small package/binary that lets you do code completion and reference is much faster. That was integrated for Mac with VS Code beyond a feature flag. Big shout out to them too, because it's a l... |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That concept of a language server is pretty impressive... Language Server Protocol, LSP. I have a feeling that it's going to revolutionize IDEs in general; I can't wait. |
I noticed that there was a Neo-Vim plugin already for the Go language server, although it looked relatively incomplete, and I'm excited to see all of the other languages that have already got LSP support, and even more excited that Microsoft created that as a standard that they're openly encouraging everybody else to u... |
**Matt Aimonetti:** Right. So again, thank you to Ramya. She's not on Twitter; I don't think she's on Twitter. She is though on top of every single issue coming in. So even if you just open an issue, if you use VS Code I would suggest you open an issue and you just say "Thank you", that would mean a lot. |
She is not really on Reddit, and I know that some people are posting information on the Go channel about different releases and the changelogs she's been working on, and she doesn't even really see the feedback from the community. |
So if you use VS Code and you use it for Go, I would really suggest you send her a quick message to say thank you, because she's working really hard on that. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** That's awesome. |
**Erik St. Martin:** Currently it looks like there's 91 open issues, so if you really wanna show love, help triage or submit pull requests. |
**Matt Aimonetti:** And most of these issues are related to using the debugger, and helping people debug what the problem is, and then making the documentation a bit better. |
There's a lot of things you can do by also showing your favorite feature and doing a small gif or blog post about it, so people can learn about it. But most of the issues are very straightforward and you can just go through them and help. |
If you want to help with the code, it's TypeScript, which looks a lot like Go; it's not really hard to write. Most of the work is actually done by calling a Go binary that we install on the machine. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** This is a semi-related segue, but why is it that Visual Studio Code feels so much faster than any other GUI editor? |
**Matt Aimonetti:** It's hard, because they're using Electron, which is the Chromium framework that's used also by Atom, and it's actually extracted out of Atom. But I think the Monaco editor is what they really optimized to make it feel really fast. Besides that, I don't quite know. |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, it's a dramatic difference on all three - I've got Windows, Mac and Linux. I've been using Visual Studio Code maybe half the time lately, and I can't get over how fast it is compared to everything else. |
**Carlisia Thompson:** Are you using that with a Vim plugin, or not? |
**Brian Ketelsen:** Yeah, I use the Vim plugin, and I use the Go plugin, and I'm amazed. It's more responsive than Neo-Vim for me. It's a really fast editor. |
**Erik St. Martin:** One of these days I'll actually try it. |
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