Improving Developer Experience with Mage and SpeakEasy

This week we’re catching up on the news! Kris is joined by Ian to discuss some of the recent news from around the Go community. Listen in to hear whether the co-hosts believe there’s software that shouldn’t be written in Go, their thoughts on if Go is evolving in the right direction & whether common nouns make good package names.

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Featuring:

• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• What software shouldn’t you write in Go?
• The myth of Go garbage collection hindering “real-time” software?
• The long-overdue problem coming for some people in Go 1.23
• Don’t name packages common nouns
• Alternatives to Makefiles written in Go
• Go evolves in the wrong direction
• Teaching Concurrency
• Go: Don’t name packages common nouns
• Computation and State Machines

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