State of the Gopher Nation
summary
Go achieves concrete gains: garbage collection pause times drop in production from hundreds of ms to under 1 ms GC pauses by Go 1.8; a dependency working group produces dep experimental tool to feed an eventual official solution; a one‑line installer cuts setup from 30–90 minutes to about 30 seconds; community metrics show 3,500-survey responses and an estimated 0.5–1M users; contributor workshop hosts ~250 attendees who generate 2,000+ contribution points; Dropbox’s Magic Pocket and Disqus rewrites reach production quickly and reliably.
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chapters (22)
- 0:00Intro
- 0:30Major milestones
- 3:35Accomplishments
- 7:00Challenges
- 9:31Worldwide adoption
- 11:35Industry adoption
- 15:48dependency management
- 17:06new user experience
- 19:09community culture problems
- 20:41single perspective challenge
- 22:30working groups
- 26:12Yandex
- 27:02Dropbox
- 28:44Cloud
- 29:00Go
- 29:51Future of Golang
- 30:54Scaling Golang
- 31:43Our Goal
- 32:12Opportunities
- 33:40Accessibility
- 34:16Team
- 34:51Outro
