Go 1.6 Release Party

What's happening?

To celebrate the release of Go 1.6 we're organizing a world wide release party on February the 17th, 2016.

Hang on, did you say Go 1.6 ships on the 17th of February?

Nope! Go 1.6 ships when it's ready. With that said, things are looking pretty good for a mid Feb release. Using the power of software estimation, a date was plucked from the aether that happened to coincide with several meetups that were already in the works.

What happens at this release party?

Go 1.6 is the 7th release of the language which has been open source since November 10th, 2009 -- that's 6.5 years since the project was open sourced and nearly 4 years since the 1.0 release. A lot has changed in the language since 1.0, so this is a great opportunity to discuss the improvements landing 1.6.

Talks

What's New in Go 1.6
We'll go through the Dave Cheney's excellent slides (http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/davecheney/gosyd/go1.6.slide#1) from a recent Go Sydney user group. Presenters: Jen Andre (https://twitter.com/fun_cuddles), Ross Nanopoulos (https://twitter.com/rossnanop) and Andrew Haskell (https://twitter.com/AndyHaskell2013).

Informal Walkthrough of Performance Differences in Go 1.6 in Production.
Presenter: Brian Hatfield (https://twitter.com/brianhatfield).

Afterwards?

We'll head over to Meadhall to socialize and network.