Beyang Liu on Go at Sourcegraph and Writing Better Code

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Beyang Liu from Sourcegraph joins the show to talk about Go at Sourcegraph and their code insight and language analysis tools for writing better code. We also get an understanding of what Sourcegraph is and the many ways to integrate it into your workflow.

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Featuring:

• Beyang Liu – GitHub, X
• Erik St. Martin – GitHub, X
• Carlisia Thompson – GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Brian Ketelsen – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Sourcegraph
• @srcgraph
• Sourcegraph Youtube videos
• Sourcegraph SF meetup
• Sourcegraph Chrome extension
• Language analysis toolchains
• Code review with IDE powers (video)
• Code usage examples in your editor, as you type (blog post)
• Go Guru: editor-integrated tool for navigating Go code
• ngrok: Introspected tunnels to localhost
• Alan Shreve’s dotGo talk: Conceptualizing Large Software Systems (video)
• Brian will be at Abstractions.io talking about generating code
• Delve: Debugger for Go
• gen-mocks: mock generator
• gRPC to JSON proxy generator

Interesting Go Projects and News

• Go’s march to low-latency GC (Twitch’s blog post)
• Alan Donovan’s Gophercon talk about Go Guru
• John Leon’s Gophercon talk about Packet Capturing with Go
• Kubernetes 1.3 release notes
• Traefik: modern HTTP reverse proxy
• Glide: What’s New in 0.11.0 (blog post)

Free Software Friday

• Brian ­- GoKit
• Erik ­ - The Silver Searcher: A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
• Beyang - Checkup: Mat Holt’s uptime monitoring tool

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!