It's Go Time On Linux
Dealing with time on Go, whether simply unmarshalling string representations of time or handling timezone/locale converstions, is <i>so</i> incredibly convenient. Gone are the days when I'd have to remember the difference between "%MM", "%mm", and "%m".<p>I have gotten incredibly spoiled in this regard, and it's incredibly painful now to deal with time in Python or (even worse) Javascript[0].<p>This isn't even getting at the synchronization/timing features, which Go provides amazing support for as well.<p>[0] My jaw hit the floor when I saw how difficult it is to get the name of a month from a Date object in Javascript: <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1643320/get-month-name-from-date" rel="nofollow">https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1643320/get-month-name-f...</a>