This summer I got the opportunity to be able to work on an open source project “aws-nuke” ((link)[https://github.com/rebuy-de/aws-nuke]). This was the push I needed to start learning and falling in love with Golang. From the walrus operator to goroutines, I have loved every second of learning this language.

As an avid IRC user (IRC is kinda dead, but Notre Dame has an active IRC community) I knew one of my first solo projects with Golang should be a client.

Design

I decided to utilize the library (go-cui)[github.com/awesome-gocui/gocui] to handle the gui, as it would abstract a level of difficulty. I decided to go with a terminal ui because I really appreciate the aesthetic of console applications.

Struggles

I had a lot of growing pains switching from a summer of python at my internship to working in Golang.

I learned a lot about structs and better ways to arrange Go code.

Source code

This is still slightly WIP, but here is the repo!

Here is the repo!