Aha moments reading Go's source: Part 1

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Jesús Espino from Mattermost tells Natalie all about (the first six of) his 10 “aha moments” he had reading the Go source code. Part 2 (with the rest of his aha moments) coming soon!

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Featuring:

• Jesús Espino – GitHub, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Dissecting slices, maps and channels in Go (at fosdem)
• The secret life of a goroutine
• Understanding the go compiler
• Go compiler inliner overhaul
• Mr. Meeseeks
• TinyGo

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Chapter

1. Intro (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:00:41)

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3. Starting Go (00:04:22)

4. #1: Slices (00:09:20)

5. #2: Go routines (00:16:09)

6. Mr: Meeseeks (00:20:19)

7. #3: Parser (00:25:25)

8. #4: Inlining (00:30:34)

9. #5/#6: Machine specific (00:36:42)

10. Unpopular Opinions! (00:42:59)

11. Jesús' unpop (00:43:27)

12. Natalie's unpop (00:44:52)

13. Outro (00:45:20)