March 18, 2021

go:embed

1 hour 5 minutes

Carl (Director of Technology for Spotlight PA) and Wayne (Principal Engineer at GoDaddy) join Mat and Mark to talk about the new go:embed feature in Go 1.16. They discuss how and when to use it, common gotchas to watch out for, and some rather meaty unpopular opinions thrown in for good measure.

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Featuring:

Carl Johnson – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X
Wayne Ashley Berry – Website, GitHub, X
Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Mark Bates – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Read the official reference documentation on golang.org

Carl also wrote about How to Use //go:embed

And learn more about its design in this Draft design video with Russ Cox

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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