github.com/graybobo/golang.org-package-offline-cache@v0.0.0-20200626051047-6608995c132f/x/blog/content/two-go-talks-lexical-scanning-in-go-and.article (about) 1 Two Go Talks: "Lexical Scanning in Go" and "Cuddle: an App Engine Demo" 2 1 Sep 2011 3 Tags: appengine, lexer, talk, video 4 5 Andrew Gerrand 6 7 * Introduction 8 9 On Tuesday night Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand each presented at the [[http://www.sydney-gtug.org/][Sydney Google Technology User Group]]. 10 11 Rob's talk, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxaD_trXwRE][Lexical Scanning in Go]]", discusses the design of a particularly interesting and idiomatic piece of Go code, the lexer component of the new [[http://golang.org/pkg/exp/template/][template package.]] 12 13 .iframe http://www.youtube.com/embed/HxaD_trXwRE 345 560 14 15 The slides are [[http://cuddle.googlecode.com/hg/talk/lex.html][available here]]. The new template package is available as [[http://golang.org/pkg/exp/template/][exp/template]] in Go release r59. In a future release it will replace the old template package. 16 17 Andrew's talk, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQtLRqqB-Kk][Cuddle: an App Engine Demo]]", describes the construction of a simple real-time chat application that uses App Engine's [[http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/datastore/overview.html][Datastore]], [[http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/channel/overview.html][Channel]], and [[http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/datastore/memcache.html][Memcache]] APIs. It also includes a question and answer session that covers [[http://code.google.com/appengine/docs/go/gettingstarted/][Go for App Engine]] and Go more generally. 18 19 .iframe http://www.youtube.com/embed/HQtLRqqB-Kk 345 560 20 21 The slides are [[http://cuddle.googlecode.com/hg/talk/index.html][available here]]. The code is available at the [[http://code.google.com/p/cuddle/][cuddle Google Code project]].