Archive for December 2009
I’d like to take a minute and wish all the readers of this blog, no matter where they are in the world, or what holidays they celebrate this time of year, a season of peace, happiness and joy. Enjoy the time with your family and friends.
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My posts on Google’s Go (Part 1 and Part 2) definitely touched a nerve with a few folks. And I appreciate good dialog on ideas like this…
One pervasive question that I keep hearing is “Who is Go good for?“ And I’m having a hard time finding a good answer. Even Go’s own FAQ page is uncharacteristically vague about it.
Read more on Google Go: Good For What?…
C++ · go · Google · systems programming
Apparently the US Military can’t write software worth a damn. Here’s a textbook-classic case of what happens when you decide to ignore a problem that is clearly evident at requirements time until well after post-deployment.
Cloud computing is clearly not where we want it to be.
On the one hand, we have folks actively trumpeting the benefits and utilitarian nature of cloud computing and data storage. It’s attractive for sure. Access data anywhere. Avoid the hassles of local backups. Prevent data recovery disasters. Pay-for-what-you-eat models. Unlimited computing potential. It’s all sounds great on a blog. Clearly the proponents want us to think Cloud computing is exactly like living on “Cloud Nine“.
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Google’s Go Isn’t Getting Us Anywhere, Part 2
18 Comments · Posted by Dave in Companies, Software
In Part One of this post, we discussed the Great Concurrency Problem and the promise of Go in taking the throne from Java. Today, I show why Go isn’t going to get us there.
Read more on Google’s Go Isn’t Getting Us Anywhere, Part 2…
C++ · concurrency · go · Google · Java · parallelism · threads
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Google’s Go Isn’t Getting Us Anywhere, Part 1
2 Comments · Posted by Dave in Companies, Software
There’s buzz in the air about Google’s new language Go. Naturally, I was excited hearing about it. After all, Google has produced so many interesting tools and frameworks to date there’s almost automatic interest in any new Google software release. But this wasn’t just a product, this was a Google language release. My programmer brain pricked up immediately.
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C++ · concurrency · go · Google · Java · parallelism · threads
My favorite enterprise language seems to be running out of good ideas to implement.
From this post detailing the upcoming language features of Java 7, here is the list of completed features to date:
- Language support for collections
- Automatic Resource Management
- Improved Type Inference for Generic Instance Creation (the “diamond” operator)
- Underscores in numeric literals
- Strings in switch
- Binary literals
- Simplified Varargs Method Invocation
Now, keep in mind, usually the most critical, important, or difficult features are implemented first. At least if you’re trying to get something out that is meaningful. But seriously, this is what Sun thought was the most important? Read more on It’s Official: Java Has Jumped The Shark…
