Writing a shell is rarely the kind of project you take on lightly. In this episode, Johnny is joined by Qi Xiao to explore how to go about such a feat in Go.
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Chapters
| Chapter Number | Chapter Start Time | Chapter Title | Chapter Duration |
| 1 | 00:00 | It's Go Time! | 00:47 |
| 2 | 00:47 | Sponsor: Fly | 02:45 |
| 3 | 03:32 | Qi Xiao | 00:48 |
| 4 | 04:20 | Elvish | 02:30 |
| 5 | 06:50 | What is a shell? | 09:09 |
| 6 | 16:00 | Sponsor: Retool | 02:51 |
| 7 | 18:51 | Why Go? | 04:08 |
| 8 | 22:59 | Different OS | 03:32 |
| 9 | 26:30 | Features | 09:05 |
| 10 | 35:35 | 1,000 line bash file | 02:21 |
| 11 | 37:56 | The perfect use case for Go | 05:27 |
| 12 | 43:24 | What Go made harder | 02:56 |
| 13 | 46:19 | What's next? | 04:05 |
| 14 | 50:25 | Sponsor: Timescale | 02:17 |
| 15 | 52:42 | Unpopular Opinions! | 00:26 |
| 16 | 53:08 | Qi's unpop | 04:37 |
| 17 | 57:46 | Johnny's unpop | 06:27 |
| 18 | 1:04:12 | Outro | 01:04 |