Blake Mizerany joined the show to talk about coming to Go from Ruby, Go’s growth and adoption over the past 7 years, adopting external dependencies, building a startup on Go, and coding as CEO.

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Featuring:

Blake Mizerany – Twitter, GitHub
Erik St. Martin – Twitter, GitHub
Carlisia Thompson – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
Brian Ketelsen – Twitter, GitHub

Show Notes:

Blake had to take off early from the show, so at around 20 minutes in Brian, Carlisia and Erik discuss the latest projects on their Go radar.

Introducing Changelog 2.0
Blake Mizerany at dotGo 2014 — Three fallacies of dependencies
Cory LaNou’s Running a Go Meetup project
go-conv - Conversions without using reflection across most built-in Go types through type assertion switches.
gorram - It’s like go run for any go function
SummitDB - In-memory NoSQL database with ACID transactions, Raft consensus, and Redis API
From Matt Holt - JSON-to-Go converts JSON to Go struct
From Matt Holt - curl-to-Go instantly converts curl commands to Go code
Write React Components in Go
go-qemu - Go packages to interact with QEMU using the QEMU Machine Protocol (QMP)
myLG - an open source software utility which combines the functions of the different network probes in one network diagnostic tool.
stability-badges - SVG badges for Go projects
netstat - Find out who is listening on a specific port
lsof - List of open files or open ports
strace - It’s diagnostic, debugging and instructional userspace utility for Linux

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