Indecent (language) Proposals: Part 1 (Go Time #166)

In this episode, we discuss some proposed changes to Go covering a range of subjects, from magical interfaces, to enhancing range loops, make and new with inferred types, lazy values, and more. We also talk a lot about ints, so get this episode in your ears.

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Featuring:

• Daniel Martí – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Mat Ryer – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

You could win Mark Bates’ Raspberry Pi 400!

The proposals we discuss are:

• 21670 - Have functions auto-implement interfaces with only a single method of that same signature
• 43557 - Function values as iterators
• 34515 - Extended type inference for make and new
• 37739 - Lazy values
• 19623 - Arbitrary precision ints
• 30613 - Checked integer types

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!