The intro slide says it all: “This talk is about things you might not know about Go. Some of this stuff you can add to your Go vocabulary. Other things are probably best left for special occasions.”

Extensive notes and code from a talk given by Brad Fitzpatrick at YAPC::Asia.

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Roger is a Go-based RServe client which allows R code to be integrated with Go apps. If you’re not familiar with R, it’s very popular in the graphical statistics field.

Go 1.5 can build shared libraries that can be called using the C ABI. This looks at how you can call such Go-built libraries from Firefox.

Go 1.5 can produce shared libraries that can be used directly from Ruby using FFI. This gives Rubyists another language with which to build native libraries.

A service that runs scheduled jobs at given intervals or times, a la cron but can be distributed across a cluster. Open source and written in Go.