New rule: Every rule exists to be broken. (except this one?)

About this episode

This episode discusses new rules in Go programming, including a formal GODEBUG removal policy and error handling best practices.

GoConf , Sept 11 & Moscow, Russia CFP Proposals Accepted: Formal GODEBUG removal policy New: Allow explicit conversion from function to 1-method interface Blog: The 10 Go Error Handling Commandments by Preslav Rachev Learn Logging & Observability in Go @ boot.dev, use code CUPOGO to save 25% Video: Practical Go Development with AI Agents by Miki Tebeka Blog series: Understanding the Go Runtime by Jesús Espino ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

People in this episode

Hosts: Jonathan Hall, Shay Nehmad

Topics covered

• Go programming
• error handling
• observability
• AI in development
• Go runtime

Keywords

• GoConf
• GODEBUG
• error handling
• observability
• AI agents
• Go runtime
• Patreon

Sponsors

boot.dev

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: GoConf

Places: Moscow, Russia

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