Virtual: Generics Draft Proposal Review

We know it has been a long time since our last meetup 😭 We were hoping the situation would blow over sooner, so that we could once again meet up and share ideas and knowledge. Unfortunately the circumstances doesn’t allow for that just yet. While we wait for the situation to improve, we have scheduled a virtual talk with William Kennedy (Bill). He will walk us though the go generics draft 👏

William Kennedy is a managing partner at Ardan Studios in Miami, FL, a mobile and web app development company. He is also a co-author of the book Go In Action, the author of the blog GoingGo.Net and the organizer for the Go and MongoDB meetups in Miami. Bill is focused on Go education and through his new venture GoingoGo Training, Bill continues the cause by working with individuals and groups who want to take their Go knowledge and coding skills to the next level.

Generics Draft Proposal Review

With the release of the new draft proposal for generics, Go. inches closer to having a version of generics in the language. It’s important that the community as a whole agrees this new language feature feels like Go and will add value to the language and the applications we build.

In this talk, Bill Kennedy will review the major aspects of the draft proposal with code samples. He will spend time teaching different aspects of the new syntax and show how generics can help make Go programs more readable when it’s reasonable and practical to use generics. After the presentation will ask questions to the group to get feedback and opinions.