HN comments seem to lack focus on the podcast's contents (which isn't too surprising, as the podcast is nearly as long as the post is old.) Having already list

HN comments seem to lack focus on the podcast's contents (which isn't too surprising, as the podcast is nearly as long as the post is old.) Having already listened, here are some highlights: * How work started on the language in the beginning, including social factors such as support from their managers. * The value of starting a language with its spec instead of an implementation. Why it's a good idea and when it's maybe not. * Learning how to work in on an open source project coming from a closed source world, how to make that project successful. * Feature rich vs feature parse languages. What Go chose, and the trade-offs it took when choosing so. * What influences Go has had on other programming languages, with a focus on gofmt and code formatting in general.