[fineIllregister]

>He currently works at Canonical, where part of his work involves porting Go to ARM 64.

That's interesting. Has Canonical stated what their interest in Go is?

[davecheney]

Go is an open source project, Canonical sponsor Go in part by paying my salary. Canonical have been building products in Go for three years.

[Mikeb85]

Probably something to do with Docker...

[dengnan]

IIRC, Canonical joined the go community around 2010/2011 when docker has not been created. They are actually one of the early adopters of Go. Some major projects from Canonical using Go are juju[0], mgo[1], etc.

0. https://juju.ubuntu.com/

1. https://labix.org/mgo

Edit: format.

[kapilvt]

Also lxd https://github.com/lxc/lxd

and in the course of juju, canonical wrote client libraries for quite a few clouds as they didn't exist at the time.

openstack -> https://github.com/go-goose/goose (imho the best one out there.)

goamz -> http://github.com/go-amz/go-amz (many forks of this one, aws is going to use a different auto gen'd one for forthcoming official go sdk)

azure -> https://launchpad.net/gwacl (imho the best one out there.)

[georgemcbay]

Also go-qml

[threeseed]

Interesting.

Perhaps Go becomes the language for Ubuntu Phone apps ?

[NateDad]

I believe that is an intended purpose of go-qml, yes.