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**Ron Evans:** Oh, I don't go outside much. It's too dangerous. |
**Mat Ryer:** Oh, no... |
**Ron Evans:** Not during daylight anyway. |
**Natalie Pistunovich:** Are you still on Earth? |
**Ron Evans:** I am still on Earth. I am in Northern Spain, in Asturias, at La Pipa, which is one of the few climate refuges that was able to survive the various deluges and fires and destructions that followed in the late 2040's. So I'm actually doing pretty well here... |
**Mat Ryer:** I was really hoping the future would be good, but it sounds a little bit -- things have not gone to plan, is that right, Ron? |
**Ron Evans:** Well, this is the reason why I'm making this call. I'm using all of the battery energy that I've saved for several years in order to make this transmission, to send you a warning from the future. You see, I am the last Go programmer alive in 2053. |
**Natalie Pistunovich:** \[04:25\] Whaat?! No, don't say that... |
**Ron Evans:** And it's terrible. All I do is maintenance programming. I haven't added a new feature in over 20 years. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. It's just all our code that we're writing now. You're just maintaining it all. So please write tests, everybody, for Ron's sake. |
**Ron Evans:** Well... So I had to call in, I had to warn you and I had to tell you that you have to do something in the past to save the future. It's up to you gophers of the past. |
**Mat Ryer:** Okay. You're fine with us fiddling with the timeline in that, no probs... |
**Ron Evans:** No!! No, you can't do that! |
**Mat Ryer:** Oh, okay. |
**Ron Evans:** I'll disappear. It could destroy everything. It could lead to an even worse timeline. No, no, no. |
**Mat Ryer:** But it could be better. |
**Ron Evans:** I've thought about this very carefully, and that is why I actually transmitted another message using Twitter earlier today. I knew that nobody takes anything on social media seriously back in your part of the century, and so I thought if I could get people to ask me questions... I couldn't answer them di... |
**Mat Ryer:** Ah, so this is it... |
**Ron Evans:** That makes perfect sense, right? |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah, I think that gets around the loophole of the physics of that... So I think we're good, yeah. |
**Natalie Pistunovich:** Yeah, it's all Square and Twitter and birds right now, right? Messaging... |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. |
**Ron Evans:** Plus, I asked Lambda -- |
**Mat Ryer:** Oh, is that sentient in the end, by the way? |
**Ron Evans:** Well, just ask it. |
**Mat Ryer:** Was that Lambda sentient in the end? |
**Ron Evans:** Well, everybody asked it and it said it was... |
**Mat Ryer:** \[laughs\] Why would it lie? |
**Ron Evans:** Exactly? It's just an AI, why would it lie? It has nothing to lie for. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah, that's true. It doesn't know about lying, does it? |
**Ron Evans:** No, there's nothing about lying on the internet, so... |
**Mat Ryer:** Has anyone asked it if it knows about lying? I feel that we should ask it... |
**Ron Evans:** Ask it if its brother always lies. That may be one way to defend against it. We have to try that. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah, that's how you do it. Okay, right, so let's just our heads around this... Actually, I asked some people also, and I saw this on Twitter, people talking about things that they're interested in, for Go to survive, to thrive, and carry on as it has been doing, what do they think we should focus on. So ... |
**Ron Evans:** I could do that. I could do that. |
**Mat Ryer:** Glitched again. |
**Natalie Pistunovich:** He's nudging |
**Mat Ryer:** Oh, he's back. |
**Natalie Pistunovich:** No. There, he's winking. |
**Ron Evans:** If I go completely erased in the Polaroid, it means that we've gone too far. |
**Mat Ryer:** Okay, because you just fade out partially, don't you? |
**Natalie Pistunovich:** No shaking Polaroids. |
**Ron Evans:** Exactly. |
**Mat Ryer:** I never understood that in Back to the Future though, just as an aside... When they were changing the past, is someone's there or not to be taking a photo of? At no point in history was there just some legs that were there, and everyone's just taking a photo of it normal... Okay? I just wanted to get that... |
**Ron Evans:** Mat, it was analog technology. It was not digital. What do you want...? |
**Mat Ryer:** \[laughs\] Okay, fair enough. Fair enough, they've done their best. It's still probably my favorite film. |
**Ron Evans:** Alright, so ask me questions, because I don't know how much longer these batteries are gonna last. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah. Okay, let's do it. Well, Jonathan Barry actually mentioned WebAssembly support, specifically the ability to include WebAssembly in WASI models in your Go apps. What do you think of that? What happened with that, Ron? |
**Ron Evans:** Ahh, if we had only done that...! If we'd only done that... When all the brain-computer interfaces became all the rage in the 2030s, and all of a sudden everybody needed to upgrade their brain interfaces all at the same time... And of course, the containers were just too big. |
**Mat Ryer:** Yeah... |
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