Description

Topics

• [00:01:14] Weekly commits report from Alex
  • os: add UserCacheDir
  • regexp: don’t allocate when All methods find no matches
  • sync: enable profiling of RWMutex
  • regexp: Regexp shouldn’t keep references to inputs
  • cmd/compile: avoid mapaccess at ..
  • cmd/trace: beautify goroutine page
  • cmd/pprof: add readline support similar to upstream
• [00:04:23] Weekly issues report from Alexey
  • proposal: Go 2: improve for-loop ergonomics
  • proposal: Go 2: disallow imports of external packages in library packages
  • language: Go 2: allow setting slice cap < len, prohibiting writes
  • proposal: fmt: maps should format in sorted order
  • cmd/go: add minimal support for vgo transition
  • proposal: io: document Closer as an idempotent operation
  • proposal: io: add OnceCloser helper
  • x/tools/cmd/godoc: add support for hotlinks
  • x/tools/cmd/godoc: create table of contents from headings in package overview
• [00:10:58] Main topics
  • Go 1.10.3 and Go 1.9.7 are released
  • milestone
  • What is Software Engineering?
  • Why Add Versions To Go?
  • Go for Industrial Programming
  • How time.Sleep Works in the Go Runtime

Libraries and projects

Starts at [00:21:40].

• Linters Runner for Go. 5x faster than gometalinter.
• Pretty Print Data Structures
• Golang implementation of Pico face detection library
• TypeScript runtime on V8 in Go

Conferences and meetups

Starts at [00:25:34].

• Container Days — 18-20 June, Hamburg
• GopherConUK — 1-3 August, London
• GopherCon — 27-30 August, Denver

Interview with Florin Pățan about GopherCon Iceland

Starts at [00:27:43].

• Florin’s twitter: @dlsniper
• New Speakers Wiki
• Join Gophers on Slack

Patrons

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This episode is hosted by Elena and Alexey.