Re: [webkit-dev] Using Go in WebKit

2011-12-08 Thread Maciej Stachowiak
I think it would be good to limit the number of languages used for WebKit development. We already have important tools that use all of Perl, Python and Ruby. To date, we've been gradually converging on new scripts being mostly in Python. I think it would be really valuable for the project. Even

Re: [webkit-dev] Using Go in WebKit

2011-12-07 Thread Dirk Pranke
All other things being equal, I'd prefer to keep things in Python since there are a lot more people that can support that than Go. But if there are some real benefits to Go, I don't have any real objection. -- Dirk On Wed, Dec 7, 2011 at 3:39 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote: > Anyone have objections to me

Re: [webkit-dev] Using Go in WebKit

2011-12-07 Thread Ojan Vafai
I initially started this hoping to address some of the memory problems in the Python app. It turned out not to fix them in the end, but the new codebase is better written, much more thoroughly tested and likely more performant, so I'm inclined to keep it. As for Go vs. Python specifics, I have opin

Re: [webkit-dev] Using Go in WebKit

2011-12-07 Thread Filip Pizlo
Can you comment why you think that Go would be the right tool for the job here, as opposed to Python, Perl, Ruby, or something else? I'm just curious, since I have not used Go. :-) -Filip On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote: > Anyone have objections to me using Go for the test resu

[webkit-dev] Using Go in WebKit

2011-12-07 Thread Ojan Vafai
Anyone have objections to me using Go for the test results server rewrite? I don't have any intention of using Go in other places in WebKit. There's a few reasons this seems fine to me: 1. You already need to get the appengine SDK to interact with the test results server, so getting the Go appengin