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Go Developer Survey (Go Time #38)

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Steve Francia joined the show to talk about the results of the 2016 Go Developer Survey and other interesting Go projects and news.

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    • Steve Francia – GitHub, X
    • Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
    • Carlisia Campos – GitHub, LinkedIn, Bluesky, X
    • Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

    Show Notes:

    The Go Developer Survey - https://blog.golang.org/survey2016-results

    • Almost all users of (89%) are using it for work, great testament to the growth of the language.
    • Heavy adoption from dynamic languages.
    • Most wanted improvements, generics (surprise!), and package versioning/dependency management (in the works).
    • Concern about finding developers, how do you feel about the pool of developers?
    • Vim / VSCode seem to be the top pics for editor.
    • When asked what libraries are still missing, the most common request by far was a library for writing GUIs. Another popular topic was requests around data processing, analytics, and numerical and scientific computing.
    • 55% of respondents expressed interest in contributing in some way to the Go community and projects. Unfortunately, relatively few agreed that they felt welcome to do so (3.3:1) and even fewer felt that the process was clear (1.3:1)
    • Cobra / Viper / Hugo
      • Interesting Go Projects and News
      • Acra
      • Nakama
      • go2asm
      • Mid-stack inlining
      • Package Oriented Design
        • Free Software Friday!

        Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

        • Erik - usql
        • Steve - vim-go

          • Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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