Pitching Go in 2025

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

With so many great programming languages having emerged in the last decade, many of them purpose-built, when and where does Go still make sense and how do you make the case for it at work?

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Featuring:

• Kent Quirk – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Christian Gabrielsson – GitHub, LinkedIn
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

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1. It's Go time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Timescale (00:00:47)

https://www.timescale.com

3. Meet the guests (00:03:08)

4. Proposing Go (00:05:46)

5. The innovator's dilemma (00:09:55)

6. A fresh perspective (00:16:13)

7. Sponsor: Retool (00:23:23)

https://retool.com/changelog

8. Do languages matter? (00:25:05)

9. Do you sense the fanaticism (00:30:05)

10. Go's future (00:44:17)

11. Sponsor: JetBrains (00:49:10)

https://www.bytesizego.com/goland

12. Unpopular opinions! (00:52:21)

13. Christian's unpop (00:52:51)

14. Kent's unpop (00:53:54)

15. Johnny's unpop (00:55:06)

16. Outro (00:59:19)