A Nil by any other name

About this episode

The episode discusses GopherCon Singapore, recent Go updates, and proposals related to the Go programming language.

GopherCon Singapore , May 22-26 Accepted proposals uuid: add API to generate and parse UUID Related, likely decline: rename Nil to Zero strings, bytes: add CutLast deprecate h2c package Blog: Go 1.26.2-1 and 1.25.9-1 Microsoft builds now available Upcoming course: Idiomatic Testing in Go ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

People in this episode

Hosts: Jonathan Hall, Shay Nehmad

Topics covered

• GopherCon
• Go programming
• API development
• UUID
• software updates
• testing

Keywords

• GopherCon
• Go
• UUID
• API
• Microsoft
• software development
• testing

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Microsoft

Products: Go 1.26.2-1, Go 1.25.9-1

Books & works: Idiomatic Testing in Go

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