Hacking drones with Go (Go Time #78)

Apr 30, 2018

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Ron Evans joined the show and talked with us about GoCV, Gobot, using Go to control drones, and other interesting projects and news.

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Ron Evans – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Interesting Go Projects and News

The NEW Improved Go Branding 😍😍
qor
run - Really nice alternative to the new errgroup package - small api, easy to use and understand
Anko - Scriptable interpreter that is embeddable by Yasuhiro Matsumoto (mattn)
Francesc Campoy - The Robustness of Go (Slides)

GopherCon speaker selections have started, first round of announcements coming SOON!

GopherconBR opened their CFP this week

Free Software Friday!

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

Erik - Jeff Hodges
Brian - Yasuhiro Matsumoto
Ron - Steve Francia between Hugo and Cobra… I mean wow.

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!