What if Google lays off the Go team?

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

In this week’s episode we’re talking about the news! In this laugh-filled episode, Kris is joined by Ian & Johnny to discuss the future of Go, both the Go team itself and iterations of packages within the standard library; Microsoft creating a Go blog & a Go fork; and SQLite and Go.

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Featuring:

• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• If Google decided to part with the core Go team, what would that mean for its future adoption?
• Microsoft now has a Go blog
• Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
• Redis re-implemented in Go with SQLite

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

챕터

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:00:39)

https://firehydrant.com/signals

3. Google parting with Go team?? (00:03:00)

https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1cft7mc/if_google_decided_to_part_with_the_core_go_team/

4. Intellectual law for open source (00:12:17)

5. Microsott's Go blog (00:16:34)

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/go/welcome-to-the-microsoft-for-go-developers-blog/

6. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:27:03)

https://speakeasyapi.dev/

7. math/rand (00:31:57)

https://go.dev/blog/randv2

8. New V2 packages (00:38:29)

9. Technical decisions (00:44:43)

10. Go changes (00:47:07)

11. Redis (00:48:44)

https://github.com/nalgeon/redka

12. Licenses (00:58:56)

13. Unpopular Opinions (01:00:12)

14. Johnny's unpop (01:00:35)

15. Ian's unpop (01:01:22)

16. Kris' unpop (01:06:03)

17. Outro (01:11:37)