On: Go 1.1 beta 1 Released

[truebosko]

For someone who wants to spend a week hacking on a project in Go, what kind of project do you recommend?

[burntsushi → truebosko]

The only real way to get hobby projects is to find a problem you've been having and solve it. So what are your problems? :-)

Here are some of mine, that I turned into Go code: (restricted to "week long hacking" or less)

    A simple blog application.
    A command that when run, sends the output of other commands to your email.
    An image viewer.
    A simpler interface to `xrandr`.
    A parser for the new TOML configuration format.

Or, you could pick a small program that you wrote in another language and port it.