How Go helped for the rewrite of pg_back
When I started developping pg_back, I wanted to keep it a simple as possible, by limiting its features. It also limited contributions, and at some point by accepting some useful contributions, the script grew and became not so simple. We could go on with the shell script and try to carefully control its growth, but it will sooner or later reach some limits of shell scripting. After some time without making it evolve, I got interested in the Go programming language. It appeared that pg_back could be a good candidate projet to let me learn Go. This is why pg_back version 2 is written in Go. ...