Re:Ask HN: What are you using Go for?
by dkuntz2 on Monday December 30, 2013 @02:48PM
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A collaborative music jukebox that lets multiple people listen to the stream over a network. Because cloud-based jukeboxes seem to be all the rage, but none of them let you play music with other people at the same time. We gave it a fun name too: https://github.com/turbowookie/turbo-wookie. Go is used for the HTTP server, and is basically a layer over interacting with MPD.
Also working on a flat-file blogging system with an online editor, because flat-file is the middle ground between a static-site generator and a traditional database-based blogging engine.
Re:Ask HN: What are you using Go for?
by dkuntz2 on Monday December 30, 2013 @05:55PM
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It was a school project. We were the only team to use new technologies. Everyone else used Java or C# (with one group using PHP). Go seemed cool. Dart (which we used for the frontend) also seemed cool.
Also working on a flat-file blogging system with an online editor, because flat-file is the middle ground between a static-site generator and a traditional database-based blogging engine.