GDG Developers Monthly Meeting

This month we will be discussing Go 1.6, as well as celebrating it's possible release in mid-February.

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.

New features and notable changes in 1.6:

Native HTTP/2 support Garbage Collector improvements GOVENDOREXPERIMENT becomes the default text/template changes. A long requested ability to trim whitespace in templates (http://tip.golang.org/pkg/text/template/#hdr-Text_and_spaces) has arrived
cgo changes
More supported platforms. And many more changes listed in the Release notes (http://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.6)