Mat gathers the entire cast (sans Natalie, sadly) alongside our producer, Jerod Santo, for one last Go Time. That’s right, this is Go Time’s finale episode. After eight years and 340 episodes, we are going out on top. Join us one last time, you won’t regret it!

We share our feelings, reminisce on the good times, list some of our favorite moments & share a few opinions, which may (or may not) be unpopular. 😉

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• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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

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Go Time producer, Jerod Santo, ranks & reviews the most (un)popular opinions of 2023.

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• chg – GitHub, X
• Chris James – GitHub, X
• Lea Anthony – GitHub, X
• Ole Bulbuk – Website, GitHub, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X
• Andy Walker – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Juan Andrés Guerrero-Saade – Website, X
• Kaylyn Gibilterra – GitHub, X
• Joe Davidson – GitHub, X
• Matthew Boyle – Website, GitHub, X
• David Wickes – GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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With the number of libraries available to Go developers these days, you’d think building a CLI app was now a trivial matter. But like many things in software development, it depends. In this episode, we explore the challenges that arose during one team’s journey towards a production-ready CLI.

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• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

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Writing a shell is rarely the kind of project you take on lightly. In this episode, Johnny is joined by Qi Xiao to explore how to go about such a feat in Go.

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• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

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Yasir Ekinci joins Johnny & Mat to talk about how virtually every Observability vendor is rushing to add Generative AI capabilities to their products and what that entails from both a development and usability perspective.

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• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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The last time we did a roundup of our unpopular opinion polls, it was November of 2021!

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• Natalie Pistunovich – GitHub, X
• Nishant Roy – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Inbal Cohen – LinkedIn, X
• Mark Sandstrom – X
• Ivan Kwiatkowski – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Michael Matloob – GitHub, X
• Ed Welch – GitHub, X
• Mihalis Tsoukalos – X
• Misha Avrekh – GitHub
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

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In this episode, we will be talking to Russ Cox, who joined the Go team at Google in 2008 and has been the Go project tech lead since 2012, about stepping back & handing over the reins to Austin Clements, who will also join us! We also have Cherry Mui, who is stepping into Austin’s previous role as tech lead of the “Go core”.

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• Austin Clements – GitHub
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• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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Tech twitter (“tech X”?) is abuzz with Paul Graham’s Founder Mode essay. How does that affect you or come into play when you’re not a founder? Does it matter at all to you, your projects & your code?

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• Kris Brandow – GitHub, X
• Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X

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In this follow-up to episode #306, “How soon until AI takes my job?”, the gang of (grumpy?) veteran software engineers candidly chat about how their day to day is changing in the midst of improving AI tooling & hype.

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• Steven Pyle – LinkedIn
• Kent Quirk – GitHub, Mastodon, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

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