Steve Francia joined the show to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

• Steve Francia – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

The Go Developer Survey - https://blog.golang.org/survey2016-results

• Almost all users of (89%) are using it for work, great testament to the growth of the language.
• Heavy adoption from dynamic languages.
• Most wanted improvements, generics (surprise!), and package versioning/dependency management (in the works).
• Concern about finding developers, how do you feel about the pool of developers?
• Vim / VSCode seem to be the top pics for editor.
• When asked what libraries are still missing, the most common request by far was a library for writing GUIs. Another popular topic was requests around data processing, analytics, and numerical and scientific computing.
• 55% of respondents expressed interest in contributing in some way to the Go community and projects. Unfortunately, relatively few agreed that they felt welcome to do so (3.3:1) and even fewer felt that the process was clear (1.3:1)
• Cobra / Viper / Hugo

Interesting Go Projects and News

• Acra
• Nakama
• go2asm
• Mid-stack inlining
• Package Oriented Design

Free Software Friday!

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

• Erik - usql
• Steve - vim-go

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!