A little reflective & contemplative after a successful human forking, our hosts reflect on a well stated OO vs Functional rant, the bot frameworks that impress & the surprisingly great use case for Go.

Plus the 800 pound snake in the room, a quick Linux switch update for Mike & more!

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— Show Notes: —

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• Programming Rant: OO V Functional

Hoopla

• This Tech Bubble Is Bursting

Bot Framework Follow Up

Microsoft Bot Framework First Impressions

• C# / NodeJS is great
• Workable via command line on MacOS / Linux
• *NIX Compatibility via Mono
• Visual Studio / Windows Still Ideal Environment

Mike’s Homework

• Facebook’s Messenger Platform
• Getting Started
• Wit.ai
• ITsABot

Go Lang

• General Notes
• Plugin Ecosystem
• Strong for Microsoft, Facebook, and ItsABot
• One of these things is not like the others…

Make My Monster Go!

The 800LB Snake in the room….

• Go for IOT / Maker Projects
• GOBOT
• Gobot for Beagle Bone
• Gobot for Arduino
• JavaScript alternative Cylon
• Ruby alternative Artoo

Linux Trails

• Michael Dominick on Twitter: “Giving Antegros a shot. Let’s see if that solves my Skylake issues. If not it’s bye #Linux and back to the #Mac @ChrisLAS”