February 2016 Meetup

Please RSVP at Meetup or Google+.

We get things started at 6:30 pm.

Sponsors

Food provided by Bellstone Engineering.

Venue provided by Startup Edmonton.

eBook Giveaway from Manning Publications:

• Go in Practice by Matt Butcher and Matt Farina
• MongoDB in Action, Second Edition by Kyle Banker, Peter Bakkum, Shaun Verch, Douglas Garrett, and Tim Hawkins
• Redis in Action by Josiah Carlson

Talks

Go 1.6 was released on February 17th. We will be discussing the changes during our February meetup.

What's new in html/template?

Brett McKay will cover blocks and other new features in text/template and html/template. (code)

What's new in managing third-party dependencies?

The Go 1.6 build tool officially supports building code placed under a vendor/ folder in your project. Gerrit Renker will tell us more. (slides)

What's new in cgo?

Go has new rules for pointer inter-op when calling C from Go. Matthias Stone will give us the details. (slides)

What's new in net/http?

Nathan Youngman will share his experiences using HTTP/2, a new feature in Go 1.6. (slides)

News

• Go 1.6 is released
• Go 1.6 release party (around the world)
• Go GC: Prioritizing Low Latency and Simplicity by Rick Hudson (video)
• Gopher Gala: Announcing Our 2016 Winners
• So you want to write a package manager by Sam Boyer
• curl-to-Go

Events

• Monthly Hack Day - March 5 (Registration required)
• Edmonton Go Meetup - March