Go Changes

Posted on Friday, December 8, 2023.

I opened GopherCon (USA) in October with the talk “Go Changes”, which looked at how Go evolves, the importance of data in making shared decisions, and why opt-in telemetry in the Go toolchain is a useful, effective, and appropriate new source of data.

I re-recorded it at home and have posted it here:

Links:

• The Go Proposal Process
• The Magic of Sampling
• Go Telemetry Blog Posts

Errata:

• There is a mistake in the probability discussion: (2/3)¹⁰⁰ is about 2.46×10^–18, not 1.94×10^–48. The latter is (1/3)¹⁰⁰. The probability of pulling 100 gophers without getting the third color remains vanishingly small. Apologies for the mistake.