--- title: "Three new design drafts to push Go forward" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 322 published_at: "2020-07-24" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/322" --- Plus more Go news and links. #322 — July 24, 2020 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/322) We're skipping the tutorials section this week, as three new design drafts have provided us with more than enough to read! 😄 If, however, you have any tutorials or blog posts we could include next week, hit reply and let us know. Golang Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/tn5sxeshqpgvlr1vhie3.jpg)](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-embed.md) [A Draft Design for Go Command Support for Embedded Static Assets](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-embed.md) — Last December we linked to [a proposal](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/35950) for bringing the embedding of static assets/files in Go binaries to the main Go toolset (versus using existing tools like [Packr](https://github.com/gobuffalo/packr)) – Brad Fitzpatrick is now back with a _draft design_ for us to chew over (which includes links to 15 alternative implementations, if you’re curious!). Russ Cox has also [recorded this video demo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmS-oWcBZaI) of how the draft design works in practice. Brad Fitzpatrick and Russ Cox ▶[A Chat with Brian Kernighan of Unix, C, AWK, and Go Fame](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9upVbGSBFo) — Lex Fridman, a well known AI researcher, had an extensive chat with [Brian Kernighan](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan), the co-author of _The Go Programming Language_ (book). Brian touches on _lots_ of neat stuff that you’ll enjoy, but the Go specific section is between [58:45](https://youtu.be/O9upVbGSBFo?t=3525) and 1:01:55. Lex Fridman [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/3def2fe0.png)](https://circleci.com/blog/building-strong-distributed-teams-one-pixel-at-a-time/) [Building Strong Distributed Teams, One Pixel at a Time](https://circleci.com/blog/building-strong-distributed-teams-one-pixel-at-a-time/) — Learn how eng. managers can improve teams based on three key “C” pillars: connection, communication, and collaboration. CircleCI sponsor [A Draft Design for New File System Interfaces for Go](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-iofs.md) — You don’t get just one new draft design this week, you get _two_. This one similarly has a [video presentation](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx7lmuwUNv8) and introduces `io/fs`, a new package that defines an interface for read-only file trees. If this idea is ringing a bell, [Afero](https://github.com/spf13/afero), which we linked last week, covers similar ground. Russ Cox and Rob Pike [The go2go Playground Now Supports New Style Generics](https://go2goplay.golang.org/p/7zFKUcpzhvZ) — Want to play with [the next step for generics](https://blog.golang.org/generics-next-step) without lots of messing around? Enter this special build of the online Go Playground. go2go [A Draft Design for First Class Fuzzing](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/draft-fuzzing.md) — What’s better than two design drafts? Three. 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