Go from C to Go [video]

[madhusudancs]

People who have posted the original video, if you are reading this, please fix the speaker's name in the youtube video title. His name is Russ Cox, not Rob Cox. It pains me to see wrong names, it almost feels to me like miscrediting :P

[vanderZwan]

Man, if Rob Pike and Russ Cox would do the fusion dance, they would be unstoppable!

[randquistcp]

Name fixed, thank you for pointing it out.

[casca]

Youtube link for anyone else who likes to download for sped-up viewing: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QIE5nV5fDwA

[vanderZwan]

So who else is extremely curious about the "difficult to explain" goto statement? (about 17 minutes in)

[jakestl]

I think he just meant it was hard to capture what it was doing in a brief statement like the others were.

[pjmlp]

Nice to see this going on.

I think compilers should be bootstraped, after the basic language is in place.

[zura]

I'm more interested to hear `from C++ to Go` stories :)

[4ad]

This presentation is about using an automated program to convert the existing Plan 9-based Go compiler suite from C to Go, it's not a "rewriting infrastructure in Go" story.