On Wednesday, 9 March 2016 at 13:23:55 UTC, Andrei Alexandrescu
wrote:
On 03/07/2016 02:17 PM, landaire wrote:
I'd like to add that one of the things that I love about Go is
that it
is crazy easy to cross-compile. `GOOS=freebsd go build` and I
have a
FreeBSD binary sitting in my working directory, ready to send
off.
What would be some good cases for that? When I want to
cross-compile, I ssh into the target machine and build there.
-- Andrei
Well, at least in a commercial environment, not having to have
multiple pools of build machines is very helpful. That is to
say, I don't need 10 windows machines sitting around waiting to
accept a job, since I can just cross compile with `GOOS=windows
GOARCH=386 go build` on linux.
This is also why gofmt is so awesome -- if you're working with a
team of 40 other engineers, you don't want to be messing with
formatting holy-wars.
And another item for this thread that D really shines at:
const and immutable -- Golang lacks const and immutable. When
working with large-ish teams, it's pretty annoying not to be able
to require a library take a const, or immutable parameter.
-S
