Reproducible Builds in Go
I love the presentation, but the GIL problem and Go's package problems aren't really even comparable. The GIL is an unfortunate consequence of the CPython implementation that can't really be solved without some serious hacks or computationally expensive workarounds. The Go "problem" is almost entirely an implementation problem; something evidenced by a simple fixed implementation.<p>Honestly, the entire presentation was nearly lost on me by the weird comparison at the beginning. I recovered, but seriously, very strange comparison for anyone who understands what the GIL represents.<p>Edit: And really, was github the best target to go to for availability when it came to developer downtime on the edited XKCD? Github's downtime is pretty near 0. I think I remember roughly an hour of downtime in 2014 in the super early morning, and nothing before that until 2012 maybe.