How things get done on the Go Team

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Angelica is joined by Cameron Balahan, Sameer Ajmani & Russ Cox from the Go Team at Google to talk about how things get done on the Go Team, how do they decide what to improve and then how do they go about improving it. We also discuss how they decide what to work when & what the future of Go might look like.

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Featuring:

• Cameron Balahan – Twitter
• Sameer Ajmani – Twitter, GitHub
• Russ Cox – Twitter, GitHub, Website
• Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn

Show Notes:

• go.dev
• Issue Tracker
• Proposing Changes to Go
• GopherCon 2022: Russ Cox - Compatibility: How Go Programs Keep Working
• John Ousterhout - Open Decision Making
• GothamGo 2016 Codebase Refactoring (with help from Go) by Russ Cox

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Chapter

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Neo4j (00:00:41)

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3. Meet the guests (00:01:42)

4. Getting into Go (00:03:05)

5. The Go team now (00:05:29)

6. Team vs community (00:07:25)

7. How the Go team makes decisions (00:09:15)

8. Sponsor: Speakeasy (00:13:59)

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9. Tech lead (00:18:51)

10. Planning ideas (00:22:28)

11. Conflict (00:34:45)

12. Internal conflicts (00:38:02)

13. Product managing Go (00:40:22)

14. Future of Go (00:44:22)

15. Progression of Go (00:52:41)

16. Unpopular Opinions! (00:57:02)

17. Sameer's unpop (00:57:21)

18. Cameron's unpop (00:58:22)

19. Russ' unpop (00:59:45)

20. Getting involved (01:00:46)

21. Outro (01:01:40)