A Generic Talk About Go
summary
Live coding in GoLand and the terminal with Go 1.19, including a working FizzBuzz, an in-place sort over a custom slice-of-structs type, and a config/flags example that compiles to pointers; the talk shows live bugs (debugger/IDE quirks, OS filesystem case issues) and practical limits of generics vs interfaces—how generics simplify summing typed slices but also force awkward casts and reflection in real config code. Numbers: short demos, one IDE, one local build.
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chapters (12)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:32IDE setup and Go project
- 8:16Hello World basics
- 17:48FizzBuzz syntax quirks
- 22:23Error handling philosophy
- 27:44Arrays slices and casting
- 34:44Sorting with interfaces
- 46:46Why Go needed generics
- 53:23Implementing generics
- 1:04:27Generics for config parsing
- 1:13:02Go use cases and limits
- 1:17:14Q&A
