Deprecate the Error Interface

About this episode

Kris and Matt discuss the future of Go and propose deprecating the error interface while exploring community ownership of the ecosystem.

Another week, another Kris & Matt duo episode! This week, they're picking up where Bryan Cantrill's "Complexity of Simplicity" framework left off and asking what it means for Go's future. Kris argues Go is squarely rebellious (simple and emergent) and that the community needs to stop appealing to the Go team and start owning the ecosystem. The episode builds to a (potentially unpopular) proposal: deprecate the error interface. As always, we've got supporter content! This week that includes Oxide's counter-cultural approach to hiring, a riff on tech industry irony and title inflation, and a deep dive into why Go couldn't ship general-purpose coroutines. Not a supporter yet? Fix that today by heading over to https://fallthrough.fm/subscribe where you'll get not only extra content but also higher quality audio. Sign up today! If you prefer to watch this episode, you can view it on YouTube. No episode of Break this week. We'll have more aftershow episodes soon! In the meantime, catch up on previous episodes at https://break.show. Thanks for tuning in and happy listening! Table of Contents: Prologue (00:00:00) Chapter 1: Catching Up and Guest Plans (00:00:56) Chapter 4: Go as a…

People in this episode

Hosts: Kris, Matt

Topics covered

• Go programming language
• error interface
• community ownership
• tech industry
• hiring practices

Keywords

• Go
• error interface
• Kris
• Matt
• Bryan Cantrill
• Oxide
• tech industry

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Oxide

Products: Go

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