Nathan Youngman is a self-taught web developer and author of Get Programming with Go. He serves as organizer for the Edmonton Go meetup, mentor with Canada Learning Code, and paparazzi of VIP gopher plushies.

He has Patreon page. He also used to blog before started writing books.

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Willam is a managing partner at Ardan Labs, a high-performance development and training firm working with startups and fortune 500 companies.

He is also a co-author of the book Go in Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net, and a founding member of GoBridge which is working to increase Go adoption through diversity.

Starts at [00:01:26].

• DRAFT Go 1.11 Release Notes
• Fixing the billion dollar mistake in Go by borrowing from Rust
• The State of Developer Ecosystem Survey in 2018
• Introduction to the Go compiler
• Go code refactoring: the 23x performance hunt
• justforfunc #35: Implementing the tree command from scratch
• Implementing Metrics In Go
  • Prometheus’ Summary implementation

Libraries and projects

Starts at [00:22:17].

• SGo: A dialect of Go with optional types and without nil references
• Fo: An experimental language which adds functional programming features to Go

Conferences and meetups

Starts at [00:24:50].

• Container Days — 18-20 June, Hamburg
• GopherConUK — 1-3 August, London
• GopherCon — 27-30 August, Denver

Interview with Brad Fitzpatrick and Brian Ketelsen @ GopherCon Russia

Starts at [00:26:16].

Patrons

We are grateful to Roman Nekhoroshev, Aleksey Akulovich and all our other patrons. You can support our podcast here (if you can read Russian :)).

This episode is hosted by Elena and Alexey.

• [00:01:14] Weekly commits report from Alex
  • os: add UserCacheDir
  • regexp: don’t allocate when All methods find no matches
  • sync: enable profiling of RWMutex
  • regexp: Regexp shouldn’t keep references to inputs
  • cmd/compile: avoid mapaccess at ..
  • cmd/trace: beautify goroutine page
  • cmd/pprof: add readline support similar to upstream
• [00:04:23] Weekly issues report from Alexey
  • proposal: Go 2: improve for-loop ergonomics
  • proposal: Go 2: disallow imports of external packages in library packages
  • language: Go 2: allow setting slice cap < len, prohibiting writes
  • proposal: fmt: maps should format in sorted order
  • cmd/go: add minimal support for vgo transition
  • proposal: io: document Closer as an idempotent operation
  • proposal: io: add OnceCloser helper
  • x/tools/cmd/godoc: add support for hotlinks
  • x/tools/cmd/godoc: create table of contents from headings in package overview
• [00:10:58] Main topics
  • Go 1.10.3 and Go 1.9.7 are released
  • milestone
  • What is Software Engineering?
  • Why Add Versions To Go?
  • Go for Industrial Programming
  • How time.Sleep Works in the Go Runtime

Libraries and projects

Starts at [00:21:40].

• Linters Runner for Go. 5x faster than gometalinter.
• Pretty Print Data Structures
• Golang implementation of Pico face detection library
• TypeScript runtime on V8 in Go

Conferences and meetups

Starts at [00:25:34].

• Container Days — 18-20 June, Hamburg
• GopherConUK — 1-3 August, London
• GopherCon — 27-30 August, Denver

Interview with Florin Pățan about GopherCon Iceland

Starts at [00:27:43].

• Florin’s twitter: @dlsniper
• New Speakers Wiki
• Join Gophers on Slack

Patrons

We are grateful to Roman Nekhoroshev, Aleksey Akulovich, Maxim Semochkin, Konstantin Veselkov and all our other patrons. You can support our podcast here (if you can read Russian :)).

This episode is hosted by Elena and Alexey.

Interview with sam boyer at dotGo 2017.

Звук от Алексея очень плох, но sam’а слышно хорошо. Благодарим Константина Веселкова за помощь в восстановлении звука этого интервью.

Interview with Jaana Burcu Dogan a.k.a. rakyll at dotGo 2017.

В нём по какой-то причине Алексей называет Derek’а Parker’а Трэвисом. Приношу свои извинения.

Звук в самом начале очень плох, но потом становится лучше. Благодарим Константина Веселкова за помощь в восстановлении звука этого интервью.

• Dave Cheney
• Brad Rydzewsky
• Robert Griesemer

Интервью с участниками конференции:

• Леонид
• Олег
• Алексей
• Владимир

Interview with Rob Pike at dotGo 2015.

Interview with Brad Fitzpatrick at dotGo 2015.