Adventures in VS Code

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Ramya Achutha Rao joined the show to talk about all the things that make VS Code a great editor for writing Go, getting help from the community, plus other interesting Go projects and news.

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Featuring:

• Ramya Rao – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X

Show Notes:

Visual Studio Code (latest version notes)

vscode-go

VS Code Insiders

vscode-go wiki

Ramya on GitHub

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Interesting Go Projects and News

Neovim GUI written in Go

Draft: Streamlined Kubernetes Development

GopherCon SG videos released

Gophercon Lightning Talks

Higher Performance Go with Go Assembly from FOSDEM

Justforfunc episode “a Text to Speech server with gRPC and Kubernetes”

“…people can change. And if you do it right, you get to watch it happen.” “I bled to get here. I have the scars to prove it.”

• Kelsey Hightower’s very vulnerable keynote speech at DevOps Days Austin

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Free Software Friday!

Each week on the show we give a shout out to an open source project or community (or maintainer) that’s made an impact in our day to day developer lives.

Carlisia - JBD (see also: Go Time #22 w/ JBD)

Johnny - q - Quick and dirty debugging output for tired Go programmers

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!