Russ Cox on passing the torch
In this episode, we will be talking to Russ Cox, who joined the Go team at Google in 2008 and has been the Go project tech lead since 2012, about stepping back & handing over the reins to Austin Clements, who will also join us! We also have Cherry Mui, who is stepping into Austin’s previous role as tech lead of the “Go core”. Join the discussion Changelog++ members save 11 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today! Sponsors: Fly.io – The home of Changelog.com — Deploy your apps close to your users — global Anycast load-balancing, zero-configuration private networking, hardware isolation, and instant WireGuard VPN connections. Push-button deployments that scale to thousands of instances. Check out the speedrun to get started in minutes. JetBrains – Sign up for the free “Mastering Go with GoLand” course and receive a complimentary 1-year GoLand subscription at bytesizego.com/goland Incogni – Go to incogni.com/gotime and use code GOTIME using our link to get an exclusive 60% off an annual Incogni plan. Featuring: Russ Cox – Website, GitHub, Mastodon, X Austin Clements – GitHub Cherry Mui – Angelica Hill – GitHub, LinkedIn, X Show Notes: passing torches to Austin and Cherry Go Issues Golang Weekly Proposing Changes to Go Go Bridge GopherCon Cherry’s Github Austin’s Github Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!