Go Changes
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Go changes prioritize making Go better for software engineering at scale, not adding language whims. Decisions use surveys (6,000 responses), code sampling (100 samples gives ~±8% error), and proposed opt-in telemetry that records named counters and crashes into weekly counter files and uploads only configured counters. Telemetry serves a signed module of allowed event names, strips user data from stacks, and aims for modest opt-in (3,000–20,000 reporters from ~3M devs yields statistically useful samples). Example wins: a new govet check for no-op append and detection of an OS X stdlib rebuild bug that required Xcode.
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- 0:00Go needs to change
- 3:11Go's goal: better software engineering
- 7:10Data for Go changes
- 15:19Opt-in Telemetry for Go
- 23:26Go change process summary
