[asterisk-app-dev] agitator - FastAGI reverse proxy

[Leif Madsen]

On 16 January 2015 at 16:18, Lefteris Zafiris <zaf.000 at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 16 Jan 2015 20:39:55 +0000
> Ben Merrills <b.merrills at mersontech.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Nice work Lefteris! Out of interest, why go?
> >
> > Skrusty
>
> Thank you Ben,
>
> I have been spending some time with Go lately and I find it ideal for
> this kind of applications. The 'batteries included' standard lib makes
> development very easy when dealing with things like networking, encryption
> etc. It's a simple language making it easy to get familiar with and you
> discover that you can get really productive very fast. Seems like a sweet
> compromise between low-level/system and scripting languages.
> Has a familiar 'C feeling' but at the same time offers memory safety
> and decent performance, less memory hungry than Java much faster than a
> scripting language without requiring lots and lots of code for the most
> common
> tasks. If you have a look at the code you will see how compact agitator is
> while
> offering quite a few features. Compiles really fast and has a nice tool set
> (profiler, race detector etc). And finally makes application distribution
> really simple, just a big, fat, statically compiled binary that you can
> copy and
> run everywhere without worrying about dependencies.
>

I can confirm all of these things based on my limited usage of Go. Been
doing a lot more learning lately and writing some fun scripts.


-- 
Leif Madsen
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.digium.com/pipermail/asterisk-app-dev/attachments/20150116/d94a981b/attachment.html>