Andrew Gerrand is an engineer at Google that works on GoLang. In his Gopher SummerFest talk, he takes us through Go’s timeline - where the language was yesterday, where it is today, and what is planned for the future (including history on the Gopher logo and plans for Go 1.4!).
This talk was given at GoSF: Gopher Summerfest hosted by Google.
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