Showing posts with label go. Show all posts
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Creating a static server in Go for Google App Engine

Posted: Saturday, 3 May 2014

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Admittedly, fighting through the jungles of a new programming language will always be a challenge, and although new programming languages attempt to be as easy-to-understand and usable as possible, unless you're using a product like Visual Studio - where "programming" consists of drag and drop, double click and a few lines of code - it's not going to be easy.

Google recently announced the inclusion of Go into their Google App Engine service, but porting code from one language to another will be an uphill battle. Particularly porting Python code to Go. Would that even be possible?
Both programming languages are fundamentally different, and follow different paradigms, but both can perform the same task of serving data online.

Since Go is so different to Python, it's best to start from the very beginning.

One of the basic necessities of all web servers is a static server.