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nicholasf07:08:18

kleber: where are you?

kleber07:08:45

I’m in Gold Coast

kleber07:08:10

I mean.. Queensland - Gold Coast

kleber07:08:40

Sorry, I’ve just arrived here, still getting used to it.

nicholasf08:08:30

no prob. Where are you from originally?

kleber08:08:58

I’m from Brazil! simple_smile

nicholasf08:08:09

ah cool. What brought you to Australia?

kleber08:08:26

I’m working for this company http://www.bikeroar.com

kleber08:08:52

have been working remotely for them for last 2y..

kleber08:08:29

I’m currently working with Ruby on Rails.

kleber08:08:48

How about you? Do you work with clojure?

nicholasf08:08:29

I work for a startup in Melbourne called Homepass

nicholasf08:08:50

we have a lot of Node stuff but are going to trial Clojure as a backend language for a particular problem

nicholasf08:08:10

sorry, a bit distracted, fixed typo simple_smile

kleber08:08:27

no worries. Cool!!

kleber08:08:37

May I ask? why clojure?

kleber08:08:50

and not Go, Erlang/Elixir?

nicholasf08:08:50

a few reasons

nicholasf08:08:01

well, that’s a big question

nicholasf08:08:07

I know Go and Elixir and some Erlang

nicholasf08:08:34

we are working on an integration problem, parsing lots of inbound documents and pubsubbing them to Firebase

nicholasf08:08:53

I think clojure is a good fit for data translation and can scale to what we need

nicholasf08:08:12

Go is a very limited language. I wouldn’t use it out of choice

nicholasf08:08:42

Id much rather use the JVM ecosystem than Erlang’s. Plus we are using Google Cloud where we the JVM is supported

kleber08:08:20

Nice one! thanks

kleber08:08:25

so.. let me know when you come to Brisbane or Gold Coast! would be nice to have a beer/water and have some conversation!

nicholasf08:08:48

sure, will do simple_smile

lanzafame12:08:22

@nicholasf: In what ways to see Golang as limited? (not starting a flame, just want to know what you see as the trade-offs)

nicholasf12:08:06

lanzafame: hrm, in quite a few ways

nicholasf12:08:26

Ive been in two golang projects

nicholasf12:08:21

the limitations of the language are very severe; no type aliasing, interface conversion being limited without type inference

nicholasf12:08:03

it was disappointing to run into Go’s shortcomings because it’s very productive until that point

lanzafame12:08:10

Hmm ok what kind of projects were the ones you worked on? I am currently contemplating a significant project in Go so advice of any kind is handy

nicholasf21:08:05

service based systems on google cloud