The State of Go in 2015 (Changelog Interviews #148)

Andrew Gerrand joined the show to talk about the state of Go in 2015, how Go compares to other concurrent languages, why people choose Go over other languages, the C to Go toolchain conversion, and what’s coming in version 1.5 and 1.6 of Go.

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Show Notes:

Andrew works on the Go Programming Language at Google.

“The reasons why I choose Go (and I think why other people choose go) are a lot to do with programmer joy… the overriding sentiment amongst Go users is that Go just gets out of your way and lets you write code.” - Andrew Gerrand @ 18:32

• Andrew’s slides for The State of Go in 2015
• Andrew Gerrand (@enneff) | Twitter
• Andrew Gerrand on Github
• The Changelog #100: Go programming with Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand
• The Changelog #3: Google’s Go Programming Language
• golang/go on GitHub
• Facebook, Mercurial or Git? - The Changelog
• FOSDEM Conf
• OSCON
• Go + HTTP/2
• Cool Math Games
• Gerrit
• Go Kit
• Go and the Modern Enterprise - Peter Bourgon - London Go Gathering 2015
• Beats, Rye & Types Podcast
• Go Programming Playlist - Youtube
• KievII - GUI Javascript library for web audio applications developers

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