[VIRTUAL] A Tour of Go for the C# Developer

This meeting will be virtual since Microsoft has not reopened their NYC offices yet. Please RSVP for meeting link.

Come join Jeremy Clark as we explore Go from a C# developer's perspective.

6:30PM - INTRODUCTION: Housekeeping, open mic and other community announcements & request.

7:00PM - MAIN PRESENTATION: Learning other programming languages enhances our work in our primary language. From the perspective of a C# developer, the Go language (golang) has many interesting ideas. Go is opinionated on some things (such as where curly braces go and what items are capitalized). Declaring an unused variable causes a compile failure; the use of "blank identifiers" (or "discards" in C#) are common. Concurrency is baked right in to the language through goroutines and channels. Programming by exception is discouraged; it's actually called a "panic" in Go. Instead, errors are treated as states to be handled like any other data state. We'll explore these features (and others) by building an application that uses concurrent operations to get data from a service. These ideas make us think about the way we program and how we can improve our day-to-day work (in C# or elsewhere).

Jeremy Clark (https://twitter.com/jeremybytes) makes developers better. By drawing on over 15 years of experience in application development, he helps developers take a step up in their skill set with a focus on making complex topics approachable regardless of skill level. He is a Microsoft MVP for .NET, and he has authored seven courses for Pluralsight, including "C# Interfaces", a course aimed at giving developers a clear understanding of abstraction. He loves speaking and has delivered over 300 technical presentations in the last 9 years in the United States and Europe. Jeremy lives in northern Washington with his lovely wife, 3 cats, 2 hound dogs, and a banjo.