From its website, Yocto, part of the Linux Foundation Collaborative Projects, is an open source collaboration project that provides templates, tools and methods to help you create custom Linux-based systems for embedded products regardless of the hardware architecture.
Go’s simplicity and exhaustive standard library means writing command-line tools is easy and enjoyable. Following the Go philosophy, if you write programs that are small and focussed, you can end up with a pretty powerful little toolbelt of utilities.
GopherCon 2016 will take place at the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado on July 11th through July 13th, 2016.
We’ve listened to the feedback you gave us from GopherCon 2015 and want to explain the changes we’re putting in place for GopherCon 2016.
Go is an awesome language. It’s simple, powerful, has great tooling and many of us really enjoy using it every day. However, as it usually happens with strongly typed languages, we write a good deal of boilerplate to connect things around.
Alastair O’Neill gave a talk at the BSides Manchester security conference in August about userland rootkits that use the LD_PRELOAD mechanism. Most of these rootkits are written in C.
A “monorepo” is a monolithic code repository which contains many different projects and libraries. At DigitalOcean, we have created a monorepo called cthulhu to house all of our Go code.