On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 2:15 PM, Sebastien Binet <bi...@cern.ch> wrote:
> Christophe, > > On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 10:56 AM, Christophe Meessen < > christophe.mees...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> I'm a computer scientist in charge of developing an image processing >> pipeline for telescope images. >> It will also have a web server and DB connection. >> >> The project is going through reviews by external experts, and the problem >> I'm facing is that my proposal to use Go is about to be rejected. >> >> The main opposing arguments are >> - everybody uses python in astrophysics >> - it is very easy to find someone who knows python >> - risk that I, sole Go programmer, might become unavailable >> >> I would have the same arguments if I was project leader and unfamiliar >> with Go. >> >> The counter arguments I found so far are that >> - Go is simpler and safer than Python >> - I learned Go in a week-end >> >> The problem is that they don't convince people who don't know Go, are not >> experienced software developers, and don't want to do the due diligence. >> It's the usual inertia to change. >> >> What other arguments could I use ? >> >> Do you know other significant scientific experiments that have adopted Go >> ? >> > > in physics, I know 3 experiments that have parts of their software written > in Go: > - SoLiD (they wrote their data acquisition system in Go, as well as some > environmental sensors monitoring (on raspi3)). > The DAQ code isn't public but there is an IEEE presentation about it > (Nick Ryder) > The monitoring code is there: https://github.com/sbin > et-solid/solid-mon-rpi > > - LSST: one of the subcomponents testing system has been written in Go > (slow control): > https://github.com/go-lsst/fcs-lpc-motor-ctl > > - EIC: there is some R&D code for the Electron-Ion collider that is being > written in Go (and can generate code for C++, Python and Java) > https://github.com/decibelCooper/eicio > ah! and I almost forgot about CMS@LHC: they're in the middle of rewritting their data placement + data transfer system from PERL to Go. https://github.com/vkuznet/transfer2go https://github.com/vkuznet/transfer2go/blob/master/docs/Transfer2go_RD_201709.pdf https://github.com/vkuznet/dbs2go it seems Valentin is also playing with TensorFlow and Go for CMS: https://github.com/vkuznet/TFaaS -s -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "golang-nuts" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to golang-nuts+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
