Go Time – Episode #339

Pitching Go in 2025

with Kent Quirk & Christian Gabrielsson

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With so many great programming languages having emerged in the last decade, many of them purpose-built, when and where does Go still make sense and how do you make the case for it at work?

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Chapters

1 00:00 It's Go time! 00:47
2 00:47 Sponsor: Timescale 02:21
3 03:08 Meet the guests 02:39
4 05:46 Proposing Go 04:08
5 09:55 The innovator's dilemma 06:18
6 16:13 A fresh perspective 07:11
7 23:23 Sponsor: Retool 01:42
8 25:05 Do languages matter? 05:00
9 30:05 Do you sense the fanaticism 14:12
10 44:17 Go's future 04:53
11 49:10 Sponsor: JetBrains 03:10
12 52:21 Unpopular opinions! 00:30
13 52:51 Christian's unpop 01:04
14 53:54 Kent's unpop 01:12
15 55:06 Johnny's unpop 04:13
16 59:19 Outro 01:51

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