Jiahua Chen is a Gopher, web application developer and open source author, who is also the creator of Go Walker, Gopm, Gogs and Macaron. He is very active on the GitHub and named himself “coding addict”. Besides, he is a video course maker and publisher as a verified teacher at NetEase Cloud Class and UCAI. His mission is to inspire more people to learn Go in China.
Qs. Why and when did you decide to start working with Go?
Jiahua: It’s actually an accident that I got started with Go, and I believe Go is new and for the young generation like me, so I continue working with it. I have a long time experience with another programming language wrapper by Chinese which also use static link compilation, I understand the benefits of it.
Qs. What are you currently working on?
Jiahua: I’m currently working on Gogs and other projects that are related to it. The goal of this project is to make the easiest, fastest and most painless way to set up a self-hosted Git Service.
Qs. Where do you see Go in the foreseeable future?
Jiahua: Go is already awesome on the server side; client side (desktop and mobile) with native GUI is the next big thing to do with it. Regardless of the platform, Go-QML is the best one right now.
Qs. How should one go about acquiring knowledge and skills in Go? What’s the best approach?
Jiahua: Exercises and doing projects is the real approach to make others’ knowledge of my own. Looking and thinking are always 1 million times easier than writing an actual line of code. My way to study Go is to use a package, found not enough, develop my fork, hopefully give a pull request.
Qs. Which areas in Go should a would-be Go programmer concentrate on, in your opinion?
Jiahua: I don’t think there is a unique answer, everything is possible. But for now, I mostly use Go for command line tools and web apps.
Qs. How excited are you about GopherConIndia 2015?
Jiahua: Very excited. I have never been to India before. I have been preparing for my talk ever since there was only a Logo on the gophercon.in site.
Qs. Do you have any parting words for our readers? Anything you would like to share with them?
Jiahua: Don’t waste time on comparing and arguing about computer languages; pick the one you feel you like and fall in love with it!
Thanks Jiahua for sharing your views with us. I am confident that your insights would help all the would-be Go programmers. In case you have any queries and/or questions, kindly post your questions here (as comments to this blog post) and Jiahua would be glad to answer.
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