A deep dive into Go's stack

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

A technical dive into how the Go stack works and why we as programmers should care.

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Featuring:

• Yarden Laifenfeld – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• David Chase – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

Chapter

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Tailscale (00:00:35)

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3. Meeting our guests (00:04:12)

4. Growing lilies (00:05:45)

5. Starting at the basics (00:10:05)

6. Sponsor: Changelog News (00:14:13)

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7. When does the stack shrink (00:15:23)

8. Working backwards with memory (00:17:59)

9. Can you be good enough? (00:23:38)

10. The stack vs the heap (00:35:59)

11. When to care about the heap (00:43:10)

12. Measure first, optimize after (00:56:26)

13. Unpopular opinions! (01:00:53)

14. Yarden's unpop (01:01:10)

15. David's unpop (01:05:08)

16. Wrapping up (01:10:24)

17. Outro (01:11:30)