Get GOing with a New Language - Kat Zien - PHP UK Conference 2019

This talk explores the importance of learning multiple programming languages for personal and professional growth as a developer. The speaker shares their journey of transitioning from PHP to Go (Golang), highlighting the concepts of concurrency and parallelism through the lens of their experience with a legacy PHP application rewrite. They discuss how adopting Go led to significant improvements in application speed, maintainability, and reliability, and present a comparison of Go's features and advantages alongside PHP. The session aims to inspire attendees to embrace new languages and expand their coding toolbox, regardless of their current preferences.