"Example of porting a Go application to mobile
ivy is a command line tool developed by Rob Pike.
It’s a useful desktop calculator that hangles big int, rational and floating-point numbers, vectors, matrices. It’s an interpreter for an APL-like language.
It is ~5k lines of Go code (not including tests, docs). It imports math, math/big, unicode, etc.
Rewriting all that in Java or Objective-C would be a lot of work and is a non-starter, since this is already just works in Go.
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"Example of porting a Go application to mobile ivy is a command line tool developed by Rob Pike.
It’s a useful desktop calculator that hangles big int, rational and floating-point numbers, vectors, matrices. It’s an interpreter for an APL-like language.
It is ~5k lines of Go code (not including tests, docs). It imports math, math/big, unicode, etc.
Rewriting all that in Java or Objective-C would be a lot of work and is a non-starter, since this is already just works in Go.
After 2 hours, Hana had a working prorotype."
Hana told Rob she had written a mobile app in go in 2 hours. His response: "why did it take you 2 hours?". Classic.