My baby project, my beloved “CMS for blogging”. I know, I know, “another freaking CMS for blogging”. So many (like four) years ago, writing a Wordpress plugin I decided to write my blog starting from scratch. PHP+MySQL seems a reasonable combo but quickly realize the complex of the matter. Developing all that in PHP was driving me mad, PHP was not a language I knew and it was a complex project. Well… It was not that complicated to do some basic working blog, but I wanted to be my baby and not some ugly mosntruosity like the first Wordpress versions.

A year ago, I decided to take the idea and instead of using PHP+MySQL, I choose Go and Mongodb (being Mongodb only for rapid development). Go was chosen over other languages mainly because it is a compile language (I got a thing about compiling things). I was messing around with C++, Erlang and Lua when remember a presentation of Go made by a friend. Quickly fell in love with Go, with the “old school” design, but updated library and tools. For me, it was beautiful, the feeling I’m writing in some scripting language like Lua or PHP, but being compile like C and structure.

I see Go as a web language, google seems to see Go as a big projects language. The structure nature and the simple concurrency makes natural the package interaction in web applications. Why not node.js? Well… I like to write Javascript as much as I like writing php, love it. The languages are easy, fun to write and get some fast results. If you are a good programmer following style and documenting your code you got no problems with those languages, but the ecosystem that grown around node is a mess, and i see some horrible looking Javascript code. Javascript could stay in the client, I want something trusty on my server.

So… I fell in love with Go, and now I’m here writing some Go and having fun. Uff surely sound like a little boy who knows nothing he’s talking about, a year from now I’ll come back to this with the though of shame.