Max Tepkeev - Do I need to switch to Go(lang) ? [EuroPython 2016] [20 July 2016] [Bilbao, Euskadi, Spain] (https://ep2016.europython.eu//conference/talks/do-i-need-to-switch-to-golang) Nowadays, there is a lot of buzz about Go. In this talk we'll learn the basics and most important concepts of the language, we'll further discuss differences and similarities in Go and Python and dive into the cool features of Go. Finally we'll talk about why popularity of Go is raising so fast and try to answer the most important question: Do I need to switch to Go ? ----- Nowadays, there is a lot of buzz about Go. It happened so that for the last 6 months I've been mostly programming Go, and frankly speaking I fell in love with this language. We'll first do a quick review of the language. Go doesn't have some language constructs, for example classes and exceptions and at first it may seem hard to write proper Go code, but in practice the language is so easy that I will try to teach you the basics and most important concepts of the language. We'll further discuss differences and similarities in Go and Python and dive into the cool features of Go. Finally we'll talk about why popularity of Go is raising so fast and try to answer the most important question: Do I need to switch to Go ?