Held in St. Louis, Strange Loop is a conference with an eclectic line up of speakers dealing with various subjects related to software development. I felt like I learned a lot and it was a fun trip.

The opening Key note was on the subject about teaching programming. It was pointed out that programming lacks pedagogical diversity. Teaching language has

This was a great opening talk. There is a lot of boiler plate involved in writing modern applications. Peter presented a tool that will write this for you.

Inspired by Rails, WebRPC will take a data type definition and generate boilerplate for Go and Typescript. With the monotonus parts of development taken care of there is more time for actually developing your application.

A highly practical talk for Go developers. Go routines are a light weight concurrency mechanism. Go routines are Go’s main selling point. They allow developers to use increasing core counts of CPUs in a simpler manner compared to most other languages.