State of the Go Nation!
summary
Go presents concrete progress: a strict Go 1 compatibility promise keeps old programs compiling, the compiler and runtime move from C to Go by 1.5 with a new low-pause garbage collector, modules arrive in 1.11–1.13 plus the go module mirror and checksum database to cache and verify immutable versions, 1.18 adds SBOMs and a built-in fuzzer, and a GA vulnerability management system launches in July. Adoption grows sharply — roughly 1.2 million new developers in 2022–23 and over a million modules — and releases stay on a predictable semiannual cadence.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Welcome
- 1:05Origins of Go at Google
- 3:09Go 1.0 release
- 6:22Go 1.5 and release schedule
- 8:11Go modules in 1.11
- 10:19Security and Go 1.18
- 13:28Generics in Go 1.18
- 15:32Go as a platform
- 17:39Go adoption growth
- 19:28Go’s mission
- 20:09Future productivity work
- 21:52Developer experiences
- 22:34Vulnerability management
- 24:02Go 1.21 performance
- 25:03Community’s role
