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Story: Writing Scripts with Go

This is a story about how I tried to use Go for scripting. In this story, I’ll discuss the need for a Go script, how we would expect it to behave and the possible implementations; During the discussion I’ll deep dive to scripts, shells, and shebangs. Finally, we’ll discuss solutions that will make Go scripts work.

Why Go is good for scripting?

While python and bash are popular scripting languages, C, C++ and Java are not used for scripts at all, and some languages are somewhere in between.

ffmpeg

Converting Audio into Different Formats / Sample Rates

Minimal example: transcode from MP3 to WMA:
ffmpeg -i input.mp3 output.wma

You can get the list of supported formats with:
ffmpeg -formats

You can get the list of installed codecs with:

The introduction to Reactive Programming you've been missing

(by @andrestaltz)

This tutorial as a series of videos

If you prefer to watch video tutorials with live-coding, then check out this series I recorded with the same contents as in this article: Egghead.io - Introduction to Reactive Programming.

	#include <iostream>
	#include <vector>
	#include <fstream>
	#include <sstream>
	#include <faiss/IndexBinaryIVF.h>
	#include <faiss/AutoTune.h>
	#include <faiss/IndexBinaryFlat.h>

	using namespace std;

	# Default config for sway
	#
	# Copy this to ~/.config/sway/config and edit it to your liking.
	#
	# Read `man 5 sway` for a complete reference.

	### Variables
	#
	# Logo key. Use Mod1 for Alt.
	set $mod Mod4

	# Backup
	docker exec CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysqldump -u root --password=root DATABASE > backup.sql

	# Restore
	cat backup.sql \| docker exec -i CONTAINER /usr/bin/mysql -u root --password=root DATABASE