[webkit-dev] Using Go in WebKit

[Filip Pizlo]

Can you comment why you think that Go would be the right tool for the job here, as opposed to Python, Perl, Ruby, or something else?  I'm just curious, since I have not used Go. :-)

-Filip



On Dec 7, 2011, at 3:39 PM, Ojan Vafai wrote:

> Anyone have objections to me using Go for the test results server rewrite? I don't have any intention of using Go in other places in WebKit. There's a few reasons this seems fine to me:
> 1. You already need to get the appengine SDK to interact with the test results server, so getting the Go appengine SDK instead is not more work.
> 2. This is a small code base (<1000 lines) and will not be growing much.
> 3. For the most part, I've been the only one maintaining it for years now anyways.
> 4. This code will not depend on anything outside of this directory and nothing outside this directory will need to depend on this.
> 
> FYI, the test results server is the server that stores and serves the JSON files for the flakiness dashboard (http://test-results-test.appspot.com/dashboards/flakiness_dashboard.html).
> 
> https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=73956
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