Keynote | State of the Go Nation
summary
Go reports concrete platform work: modules (immutable versions) plus a module mirror and checksum DB to cache and detect tampering; a GA vulnerability database surfaced in pkg.go.dev, CLI and VS Code; native fuzzing and SBoM support in Go 1.18; generics added in 1.18 and new generic stdlib packages in 1.21. Adoption quadruples since 2018 with 1.2 million new developers in 2022–2023, over 1M modules in the ecosystem. Tooling wins include compiler/runtime rewrite in 1.5 and on-disk LSP indexes that cut startup latency and memory by 3–5×.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Introduction and context
- 0:49The origin of Go
- 2:59Defining Go 1.0
- 6:01Refining the platform
- 7:54The shift to modules
- 10:27Focusing on security
- 12:42Adoption and generics
- 14:54Expanding developer tools
- 17:01Go's current state
- 19:42Future roadmap and goals
- 25:33AI and application development
- 29:59Community and growth
- 33:21Q&A session
