Andrew Gerrand joined the show to talk about the state of Go in 2015, how Go compares to other concurrent languages, why people choose Go over other languages, the C to Go toolchain conversion, and what’s coming in version 1.5 and 1.6 of Go.
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Notes & Links
Andrew works on the Go Programming Language at Google.
“The reasons why I choose Go (and I think why other people choose go) are a lot to do with programmer joy… the overriding sentiment amongst Go users is that Go just gets out of your way and lets you write code.” - Andrew Gerrand @ 18:32
- Andrew’s slides for The State of Go in 2015
- Andrew Gerrand (@enneff) | Twitter
- Andrew Gerrand on Github
- The Changelog #100: Go programming with Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand
- The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
- golang/go on GitHub
- Facebook, Mercurial or Git? - The Changelog
- FOSDEM Conf
- OSCON
- Go + HTTP/2
- Cool Math Games
- Gerrit
- Go Kit
- Go and the Modern Enterprise - Peter Bourgon - London Go Gathering 2015
- Beats, Rye & Types Podcast
- Go Programming Playlist - Youtube
- KievII - GUI Javascript library for web audio applications developers