▲ 12 ▼ Video: Exporting Go by Robert Griesemer

From inception, Go has been designed to scale from the small to the very large; Go packages together with import and export are key language features for achieving that software scalability. Sprinkled with historic tidbits, this talk explains the inner workings of import and export, and how these mechanisms enable robust separate compilation of packages. We conclude with a discussion of how our design trade-offs affect scalability.