What's new in Go 1.20

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Our “what’s new in Go” correspondent Carl Johnson joins Mat & Johnny to discuss… what’s new in Go 1.20, of course! What’d you expect, an episode about Rust?! That’s preposterous…

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Featuring:

• Carl Johnson – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• GopherCon Europe 2023 CFP
• GopherCon UK 2023
• Shout AT: London Gophers
• Ron Evans on 2053: A Go Odyssey
• What’s New in Go 1.20, Part I: Language Changes
• What’s New in Go 1.20, Part II: Major Standard Library Changes
• What’s New in Go 1.20, Part III: Minor Standard Library Changes

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

פרקים

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Welcome back Carl! (00:01:48)

3. Reintroducing Carl (00:04:15)

4. Community updates (00:07:00)

5. Gophercon UK 2023 (00:11:24)

6. Shout AT: London Gophers (00:11:35)

https://gophers.london

7. Ron Evans on 2053: A Go Odyssey (00:12:51)

https://gotime.fm/235

8. Multi errors on Go 1.20? (00:14:38)

9. Errors.is (00:20:03)

10. Sponsor: Changelog++ (00:23:49)

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11. What's the deal with comparable? (00:24:45)

12. Designing for flexibility (00:29:50)

13. Slices (00:34:19)

14. "Johnny Did a Great Link" by Mat Ryer (00:38:19)

15. Context, Context everywhere (00:38:56)

16. First hot take of the episode (00:42:16)

17. Experimental memory arenas (00:42:57)

18. "I Can't Think of Any Words" by Mat Ryer (00:47:57)

19. http.ResponseController (00:49:54)

20. It's time for Unpopular Opinions! (00:54:29)

21. Carl's unpop (00:55:02)

22. Mat's unpop (01:00:33)

23. Johnny's unpop (01:02:49)

24. Roasting all world leaders (01:06:10)

25. Time to Go! (01:10:01)

26. Outro (01:11:12)