Go4 and Contributing to Go

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Brad Fitzpatrick joined the show to talk about becoming the face of open source Go, getting the community involved in bug triage, the potential future of Go, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

• Brad Fitzpatrick – Website, GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Go4
• Gardening
• Go Contribution Guide
• GopherCon 2016 - Lightning Talk: Brad Fitzpatrick
• Camlistore
• Grumpy: Go running Python
• proposal: generic programming facilities
• DNS library in Go
• Package mem
• #goreviews

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Interesting Go Projects and News

• Shoutout to Dave Brophy (author of jennifer and several other cool Go tools) for sending us a shoutout from the French Alps!
• periph
• myitcv.io/react - now with more code gen and preact support too! (From Paul Jolly)
• Reddit - Is Go 2 actually happening? If so, when will development start?

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Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shoutout to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

• Carlisia - changelog.com
• Brian - Buffalo

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!