Swifts vs. Gophers

So you like Swift.. but you want to know what Golang is all about. In this session we’ll cover why you would want to be Go curious, what advantages Go might have, and why you’ll still like Swift for a lot of things. We won’t bore you with compilation speeds and how compact the binaries are, but instead will focus on personal opinions and learned experiences. We’ll cover the ins and outs of starting up with Go. The things you’ll hate about it as a Swift developer and the things you’ll like about it as a Swift developer. By the end you’ll even be able to quickly set up a web service and start serving APIs.

About the presenter

Joel is the Vice President of Product Strategy at JumpCloud residing in the greater Minneapolis, MN area. He focuses primarily on the intersection of identity, users and the devices that they use. While Joel has spent most of his professional career focused on Apple products, at JumpCloud he works with a team focused on bolding going where no devs have gone before across all platforms. Prior to JumpCloud Joel was a director at Jamf helping to make Jamf Connect and other authentication products. In 2018 Jamf acquired Joel’s startup, Orchard & Grove, which is where Joel developed the widely-used open source software NoMAD. Installed on over one million Macs across the globe, NoMAD allows macOS users to get all the benefits of Active Directory without having to be bound to them. Joel also developed other open source software at Orchard & Grove such as DEPNotify and NoMAD Login. Over the years Joel has been a frequent speaker at a number of conferences including WWDC, MacSysAdmin, MacADUK, Penn State MacAdmins Conference, Objective by the Sea, FIDO Authenticate and others in addition to user groups everywhere. Joel spent over a decade working at Apple in Enterprise Sales and started the website afp548.com which was the mainstay of Apple system administrator education during the early years of macOS X.