Making good progress on Go implementation of the CoffeeOutside bot. I don’t know how much of it I can pin on Go being a decent language (it is) and that the logic for the bot is now pretty sound, but either way this should make for an easier experience. I thought of a neat little metaphor while walking to the library today. If an IT group was a hockey team, development would be offense, QA defense, and ops the goalies.

I’ve been a little too much in my comfort zone programming-wise, so I’m thinking I might take a stab at re-writing the CoffeeOutside bot in Go. I’d like to see others be able to use it, and as it stands right now you kind of need to be a Python developer to get it. Moving to Go would cut several steps off the install process. The Bryan Cantrill video below is stirring my interest in Rust again, but I think that’s going to have to wait until 2019 when I’ve knocked a few projects off my to-do list.