Go4 and Contributing to Go

Apr 27, 2017

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Brad Fitzpatrick joined the show to talk about becoming the face of open source Go, getting the community involved in bug triage, the potential future of Go, and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

Brad Fitzpatrick – Website, GitHub, X
Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Shoutout to Dave Brophy (author of jennifer and several other cool Go tools) for sending us a shoutout from the French Alps!
periph
myitcv.io/react - now with more code gen and preact support too! (From Paul Jolly)
Reddit - Is Go 2 actually happening? If so, when will development start?

Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shoutout to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Carlisia - changelog.com
Brian - Buffalo

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