Big shoes to fill

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

Kris, Angelica & Johnny react to the recently announced Go team changes, discuss the finding that 80% of developers surveyed by Stack Overflow are unhappy & disagree about the concept of tech debt (but agree that something’s gotta give).

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Featuring:

• Kris Brandow – Twitter, GitHub
• Angelica Hill – Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn
• Johnny Boursiquot – Twitter, GitHub, Website

Show Notes:

• Russ Cox: passing torches to Austin and Cherry
• 80% of professional programmers are unhappy (Changelog News #106)

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Chapters

1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Coder.com (00:00:40)

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3. Introductions (00:04:16)

4. Go team changes (00:05:13)

5. Community leadership (00:16:33)

6. Growing pains (00:23:15)

7. Why we need DevRel (00:25:33)

8. Big shoes to fill (00:30:10)

9. Developers are unhappy (00:36:16)

10. Why tech debt is building (00:45:15)

11. Tech debt is normal (00:53:56)

12. Calculating tech debt (00:56:50)

13. Simple vs quickly (01:01:18)

14. Agreeing to agree (01:03:14)

15. Thanks for listening! (01:04:04)

16. Outro (01:04:44)

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