Welcome to the R.Labs podcast. Our special guest today is Cameron Ballahan. Cameron, I just saw you in Berlin, man. It's so nice to now see you here.

I know. What a pleasure. Thank you so much for inviting me. It's always great to see you, and it's great to sort of contribute to whatever you're doing.

Hey, man. I appreciate it.

Okay. For those who may not know who you are yet, why don't you give everybody the two-minute

spiel on what you're doing today. Just kind of focus on today. Okay. First, it's very normal

not to know who I am, but I am the product

lead for the Go programming language at Google. So I work with Russ Cox, Samir Ashmani,

you know, the team lead and engineering director, respectively, of the Go team to sort of create the product strategy

for the programming language.

Now, maybe people might wonder what that means, and I probably couldn't really explain

what it means, but it does end up being a lot of work around what we're doing next, what we're trying to sort of accomplish for our stakeholders, keeping sort of Google happy with the fact that it funds go, keeping our users engaged and ensuring that we're sort of meeting their needs and

and make paving away for the future of Go to sort of continue being this thing that, you know,

creates software excellence and enables people to build workloads that work are secure,

are reliable, and that they're all productive. So that's the big picture.

And I try to figure out the little things to do in between.

How long have you been doing this job now?

Has it been like two full years already or maybe three?

It's been four since I joined this team.

But I've worked with Steve Francia, my predecessor,

for the first almost two years.

So, yeah, about two that it's been without Steve.

You know, there's just training wheels came off.

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