New Go branding strategy (Go Time #79)

Steve Francia joined the show and told us EVERYTHING about Go’s new branding strategy (and don’t worry, the gopher isn’t going anywhere!)

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Featuring:

• Steve Francia – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• Go’s New Brand
• The Go Gopher
• Go’s New Brand | Hacker News

Interesting Go Projects and News

• Rat - Compose shell commands to build terminal applications
• gVisor - Container Runtime Sandbox
• Open-sourcing gVisor, a sandboxed container runtime
• Using SVGo, A Go Language Library for SVG Generation
• Bounds Check Elimination In Go
• Go Compiler intro
• ian molee on Twitter: “This clip of @deadprogram endangering @markbates’ wellbeing with an out of control robot…”

Free Software Friday!

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

• Erik - Julia Evans’ Bite Size Linux
• Steve - Anthony Starks

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!