The Go Compiler and Go 1.8 (Go Time #27)

Keith Randall from the Go team joined the show to talk about why a new compiler, what we gain from SSA, what’s next for the compiler, Go 1.8, and the goals/plans for Go 1.9.

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Featuring:

• Keith Randall – Website, GitHub
• Bill Kennedy – Website, GitHub, X
• Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• 1.8 Beta — get it while it’s hot!
• Inside the Map Implementation - from Keith Randall and GopherCon 2016
• GothamGo videos are on YouTube
• How Do They Do It: Timers in Go — Contributed by Alexander Morozov & Vyacheslav Bakhmutov
• Contributing to the Go project — Contributed by Matt Layher
• GoLab — The Italian conference on Go, Jan 20-21
• Dominik Honnef’s — An incomplete list of tools from the Go tool chain

Free Software Friday

• Erik — Arduino maker community
• Carlisia — json incremental digger from simeji
• Keith — Delve
• Bill — go-hep and gonum - Go-based software for the High Energy Physics community

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!