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Cameron Balahan

@cameronb.bsky.social

Product lead for Go at Google

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An announcement graphic that reads "Genkit Go is ready for production use (with Gopher)" with the Go mascot, the Gopher, in the corner.

An announcement graphic that reads "Genkit Go is ready for production use (with Gopher)" with the Go mascot, the Gopher, in the corner.

An infographic on a dark background with green text boxes. The top box describes "Type-safe AI flows with Go structs and JSON schema validation." The bottom box highlights a "Unified model interface supporting Google AI, Vertex AI, OpenAI, Ollama, and more." A large green opening curly brace { is on the left side of the graphic.

An infographic on a dark background with green text boxes. The top box describes "Type-safe AI flows with Go structs and JSON schema validation." The bottom box highlights a "Unified model interface supporting Google AI, Vertex AI, OpenAI, Ollama, and more." A large green opening curly brace { is on the left side of the graphic.

An infographic with a dark background and orange text boxes. The top box says "Tool calling, RAG, and multimodal support." The bottom box says "Rich local development tools with a standalone CLI binary and Developer UI." Between them are icons of a laptop, an oval, and a puzzle piece.

An infographic with a dark background and orange text boxes. The top box says "Tool calling, RAG, and multimodal support." The bottom box says "Rich local development tools with a standalone CLI binary and Developer UI." Between them are icons of a laptop, an oval, and a puzzle piece.

A dark background graphic with a red text box at the top stating, "Try our AI coding assistant integration in Gemini CLI by entering." Below it is a pink box with the command genkit init:ai-tools. To the left is a large pink semicolon icon, and to the right is the light blue Go Gopher mascot looking at the command.

A dark background graphic with a red text box at the top stating, "Try our AI coding assistant integration in Gemini CLI by entering." Below it is a pink box with the command genkit init:ai-tools. To the left is a large pink semicolon icon, and to the right is the light blue Go Gopher mascot looking at the command.

Announcing Genkit Go 1.0! The SDK is now stable and production-ready. The 1.0 release introduces the genkit init:ai-tools command for seamless integration with AI coding tools, with built-in support for tool calling, RAG, and more. ➑️ goo.gle/487gyzJ

10.09.2025 14:09 β€” πŸ‘ 37    πŸ” 9    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 1
Cameron Balahan about to speak on what's next for Go!

Cameron Balahan about to speak on what's next for Go!

First up for the conference is @cameronb.bsky.social ! Go's Next Frontier

27.08.2025 13:07 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.25.0@latest
$ go1.25.0 download
Downloaded   0.0% (       0 / 58130695 bytes) ...
Downloaded  50.0% (29065347 / 58130695 bytes) ...
Downloaded 100.0% (58130695 / 58130695 bytes)
Unpacking go1.25.0.freebsd-arm.tar.gz ...
Success. You may now run 'go1.25.0'
$ go1.25.0 version
go version go1.25.0 freebsd/arm

$ go install golang.org/dl/go1.25.0@latest $ go1.25.0 download Downloaded 0.0% ( 0 / 58130695 bytes) ... Downloaded 50.0% (29065347 / 58130695 bytes) ... Downloaded 100.0% (58130695 / 58130695 bytes) Unpacking go1.25.0.freebsd-arm.tar.gz ... Success. You may now run 'go1.25.0' $ go1.25.0 version go version go1.25.0 freebsd/arm

🎊 Go 1.25.0 is released!

πŸ“ Release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.25

⬇️ Download: https://go.dev/dl/#go1.25.0

#golang

12.08.2025 21:58 β€” πŸ‘ 192    πŸ” 55    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 11
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πŸš€ Go isn’t just keeping upβ€”it’s leading the way!

From its game-changing concurrency model to driving open-source security, #golang has shaped the industry. Now, it’s poised to lead the next frontier: AI + programming.

Join @cameronb.bsky.social at #GopherCon to see what’s next.

#GopherConOrBust

01.07.2025 18:28 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Submit questions for the Panel with the Go Team at GopherCon Europe 2025 GopherCon Europe will host a Panel with the Go Team. You can submit questions for our panelists below. Please bear in mind not all questions will be asked. A good question can be at any level -…

Next week I will be on the Go Team panel at GopherCon Europe 2025 in Berlin, with Jonathan Amsterdam, Michael Pratt, Damien Neil, and Michael Stapelberg.

If you're attending, submit your questions by the end of Monday at forms.gle/gD1iBMLgjyVu...!

13.06.2025 12:35 β€” πŸ‘ 26    πŸ” 6    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0
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Google I/O 2025: What's new in Go Don’t miss Google I/O, featuring product launches, innovations, and insights. Tune in for the live keynotes and sessions.

This year's #GoogleIO is extra exciting, not least because Go team members @cameronb.bsky.social and @muncus.bsky.social will be presenting Go's first ever product keynote, "What's New in Go"! Tune in on Thursday, May 22 at 9am PT πŸ‘‰ io.google/2025/explore...

20.05.2025 18:02 β€” πŸ‘ 48    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0
Photo of Go team members at the Go booth during Google Cloud Next.

Photo of Go team members at the Go booth during Google Cloud Next.

Are you at #GoogleCloudNext? Be sure to say hello to the Go team at our booth in the Developer Community Hub on the expo floor! We’ll be here all week to chat all things #golang.

09.04.2025 19:57 β€” πŸ‘ 45    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 1
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A 10x Faster TypeScript - TypeScript Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

It’s always exciting to see a high-profile dev team celebrate a 10x performance gain in their project since switching to Go. It’s extra exciting when that project is the TypeScript compiler and toolchain.
devblogs.microsoft.com/typescript/t...

12.03.2025 13:38 β€” πŸ‘ 8    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Come say hello!

28.02.2025 21:43 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Release gopls/v0.18.0 Β· golang/tools This release contains some small changes to gopls behavior, bug fixes, and new features. Notably, the new modernize analyzer reports hint diagnostics suggesting ways that Go code could be updated t...

gopls v0.18.0 quietly released a new "modernize" tool which automatically adjusts your #golang code to use newer std APIs and language features!

modernize -fix ./...

For example: range over int, min and max, slices APIs like Contains or Delete.

github.com/golang/tools...

23.02.2025 12:32 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 24    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cloudflare Radar 2024 Year in Review The Cloudflare Radar 2024 Year In Review features interactive charts, graphs, and maps you can use to explore what changed on the Internet Worldwide throughout 2024.

Go surpassed Node as the most popular language for making automated API requests in this year’s Cloudflare Radar Year in Review! This is a pretty big deal and corroborates the amazing growth we've seen elsewhere.

2024: Go 12%, Node 10%
2023: Go 8%, Node 15%

radar.cloudflare.com/year-in-revi...

10.12.2024 17:48 β€” πŸ‘ 33    πŸ” 12    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Go Turns 15 - The Go Programming Language Happy 15th birthday, Go!

Happy birthday, Go! πŸŽ‚
go.dev/blog/15years

12.11.2024 17:21 β€” πŸ‘ 541    πŸ” 111    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 18

Hello, World

27.04.2023 00:17 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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