• Go 1.23.3 and 1.22.9 released
• Proposals
  • Accepted: 📂 Safer file open methods
  • Likely accept: Drop macOS 11 support for Go 1.25
  • 🎆 The Go project recently passed the 70,000 issues on GitHub, with net/http: short writes with FileServer on macos
• 🇮🇹 GoLab tickets still available, Florence Italy, Nov 11-13
• Reddit: Is there a path forward for Go's yaml situation?
• Factorio Round
  • Factorio server manager
  • FactoCord
  • mapshot
  • terraform-factorio-provider
• Interview with John Cricket
  • Coding Challenges
  • LinkedIn
  • YouTube
  • X/Twitter

• 🪜 The Go Remote Meetup is looking for a new organizer. Step up!
  • Interview with Wilken Rivera of the Go Developer Network, Episode 32
• Proposals
  • Accepted: add slog.DiscardHandler
    • Previous discussion in Episode 80
  • Accepted: enable GOCACHEPROG by default
    • Previous discussion in Episode 85
  • 📂 Likely accept: Safer file open functions
    • Prevoius discussion in Episode 66
  • 🏃 Active: Cache final output binaries for go run
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • Blog post: Optimising and Visualising Go Tests Parallelism: Why more cores don't speed up your Go tests by Robert Laszczak
  • 🧶 Plushies as Code: Gopher crochet pattern by Alcione Ribeiro
• 🌳 Interview with Justin McCarthy of StrongDM
  • StrongDM
  • Cedar Language
  • cedar-go on GitHub
  • Rego policy language
  • Zanzibar: Google’s Consistent, Global Authorization System
  • Cedar Blog
  • Contact Justin by email at justin@strongdm.com

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• Conferences roundup
  • 🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel Sep 9th https://www.gophercon.org.il/
  • 🇩🇪 Fyne Conf 2024 Sep 20th https://conf.fyne.io/
  • 🌐 GoFunc Oct 3rd https://gofunc.ru/
  • 🇰🇪 GopherCon Africa Oct 18th-19th https://nairobi.gophers.africa/
  • 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore https://2024.gophercon.sg/
  • 🇮🇹 GoLab Nov 11th-13th https://golab.io/
• Proposals
  • ✄ proposal: debug/bisect: publish x/tools/internal/bisect
  • ⚠️ proposal: errors: add All and AllAs iterators
• Releases
  • 🗃️ Cue 0.10.0 with experimental embed support
• ⚡️ Lightning round
  • 🐣 You're not mature enough to release your first version as v1
  • 🏃 New release for FIT: Garmin watch protocol in Go
  • 💬 The most exciting part of Go 1.23
  • 🗺️ Open Source database diagram editor

• 🎉 Go 1.23 is here!
• Blog: Range Over Function Types by Ian Lance Taylor
  • A look at the spec: Tree walking with range-over-func by Jonathan Hall
• Conferences & CFPs
  • 🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, Nov 7-8 Sydney, Australia
    • CFP closes Sept 15
  • 🇺🇸 GoWest, Oct 25, Lehi, Utah, USA
    • Still accepting lightning talks
    • Lane Wagner
      • boot.dev
      • Lane Wagner on Cup o' Go
      • Jonathan Hall on Backend Banter
  • 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore
    • CFP closes Aug 26
  • 🇩🇪 FyneConf, Sept 20, Berlin, Germany
    • CFP closes today, Aug 23
  • 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK 2024 talks are now online!
• Proposal accepted: add Context method to testing.T
• 🌩️ Lightning round
  • timelinize
  • Blog: gRPC over HTTP/3 by Kevin McDonald
  • Jonathan's wasmws fork & the original

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• 🏛️ Go 1.22.6 & 1.21.13 released  
• 🕵️ CVE-2024-24790 explained (and scored on Synk)
• 🧪 Likely accept: add Context method to testing.T
• 🧑‍💻 StackOverflow 2024 developer survey results

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• 🫡 Leadership Transition in the Go Project
• 🧑‍⚖️ Proposals
  • Accepted: Adding Text() to the crypto/rand library
  • Proposal (likely decline): add crypt(3) compatibility in the stdlib
  • Active Proposal: Telemetry in Delve
• 🤝 Community
  • GopherCon EU 2024 videos have been uploaded online 
  • 🎮 GameDev
    • New minor version for ebitengine
    • Go for RPG tutorial on YouTube by CodingWithSphere
• 🏎️ Lightning round
  • 💰 Go & Money
  • 🔐 Quantum-Safe TLS
  • 🐑 New ollama release

• 📝 Go 1.23: Interactive release notes
• New proposals
  • runtime: add AddCleanup and deprecate SetFinalizer
  • 👉 weak: new package providing weak pointers
• 💪 Bufstream enters public beta
• Lightning Round
  • Profiling in Go: A Practical Guide by Noam Yadgar
  • Cogent Core initial release
  • New RansomHub Ransomware Version
• Interview with Alice Merrick
  • Previous episode 59: All about community

News this week:

• 🆕 rc2 is out 
  • Google Groups notice
  • The actual Merge List
• 🇰🇪 GopherCon Africa Oct 18-19
• Does Go benefit more from copilot than other languages?
• Range-over-func demystified
  • Zach Musgrave's post from dolthub; Go range iterators demystified
  • John's take on it; First impressions of Go 1.23's range-over-func feature
• ⚡️ Lightning round
  • "This cli component was trickier to build than I thought" by Dreams of Code on YouTube
  • Introducing Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go by Spike Curtis
  • ov - feature rich terminal pager release v0.35.0

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• Conferences & CFPs
  • 🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel, Sept 9 @ Tel Aviv
    • CFP open until Jul 15
  • 🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, No
    • CFP open until Sept 15
  • 🇮🇳 GopherCon India, Dec 1 @ Jaipur
  • 🇩🇪 Fyne Conf, Sept 20 @ Berlin
    • CFP open until Aug 16
  • 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore, October TBD
    • CFP open until Aug 19
• Go 1.23 draft release notes
• ⏲️ Blog: Resetting timers in Go by Anton Zhiyanov
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • Geomys, A Blueprint for a Sustainable Open Source Maintenance Firm by Filippo Valsorda
  • github.com/openhue/openhue-go — A library for interacting with the Philips Hue smart lighting systems.
  • github.com/frederikaverpil/neotest-golang — Reliable Neotest adapter for running Go tests in Neovim.
  • github.com/AllenDang/giu — A rapid cross-platform GUI framework for Go.
  • github.com/ergochat/ergo — A modern IRC server written in Go.

• Go 1.22.5 & 1.21.12 released
• Conferences
  • 🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel, Sept 9 @ Tel Aviv
    • CFP open until Jul 15
  • 🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, No
    • CFP open until Sept 15
  • 🇮🇳 GopherCon India, Dec 1 @ Jaipur
• New proposal: include abandoned packages in list of deprecations
• Blog post: gRPC: The Good Parts by Kevin McDonald
• 🍪 New package: github.com/syntaqx/cookie
• Found on Reddit: How Go allowed us to send 500 million HTTP requests to 2.5 million hosts every day

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• 🚢 Releases
  • 1.23 RC1 released
  • 1.22.5 & 1.21.12 pre-release announcement
• Proposals
  • 1️⃣ Accepted: cmd/gofmt: change -d to exit 1 if diffs exist
  • 🆕 Accepted: list deprecations and newer available dep versions 
  • 🪢 Accepted: spec: allow range-over-func to omit iteration variables 
• Community
  • ⛈️ gRPC: The Bad Parts

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• Which GUI library to choose?
• Caesar, a new Go Web Framework
• "How to prove I am good at Go apart from having work experience?"
• "Where should I learn Go?"
• Learn Go with Tests

• IRL Go meetings
  • 🇫🇮 Helsinki Go meetup, Nov 6
  • 🇦🇺 GopherConAU, Nov 6-8
• Proposals
  • Likely accept: enable GOCACHEPROG by default
• Blog posts
  • Two common Go interface misuses by Konrad Reiche
    • Mocks Aren't Stubs by Martin Fowler
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • Reddit FAQ: GUI Solutions for Go
  • miQT, MIT-licensed Qt bindings for Go
  • 🧻 pgroll, Zero-downtime, reversible, schema migrations for Postgres
  • burrow, Go database migration tool
• Technical documentation discussion
  • Vale, brings code-like linting to prose
  • ✍️ write-like-a-pro
  • 🏊‍♀️ swimm.io

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• 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe next week, June 17-20
  • Can’t afford to attend online? Fill in this form: https://forms.gle/gcDGxnRJvjXbVPuZ6
• 🎲 math/rand: make global seed a no-op
• 📦 goreleaser v2 released
  • 📼 A few Go tools for production-level developer applications (Orca meetup Mar 2023)
• 🎮 Why is Go not used for game development?
  • GMTK Game Jam 2024 - Hosted by Game Maker's Toolkit
• 🦾 gabyhelp - a new bot to help automate work in the Go issue tracker
• 🧐 5 small tips I recently learned in Go

• Go 1.22.4 & 1.21.11 released
• Proposals
  • New: safer file open functions
    • github.com/google/safeopen alternative
    • openat man page
  • New: allow range-over-func to omit iteration variables
• Blog: Flaky Tests Overhaul at Uber
• Blog: Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform
  • Interview with Ashley Jeffs
    • Twitter
    • LinkedIn
    • GitHub
  • Announcement discussion on Hacker News
  • Redpanda Connect project page
  • Previous Benthos interview in Episode 27
  • Redneck language in RedHat, cerca 1998

• Go 1.22.4 & 1.21.11 coming Tuesday, June 4
• Community events
  • Golang Atlanta meetup, June 13
  • Cup o' Go Meetup in Amsterdam, June 19
  • Golang Tilburg meetup, June 20
• Proposal accepted and implemented: new iterator functions in maps package coming in 1.23
• Reddit: What software shouldn't you write in Go?
• Blog: Blazingly Fast Shadow Stacks for Go by Felix Geisendörf
• Blog: Abusing Go's infrastructure by Pedro Vilaça
• Ad break
  • Episode 15, interview with Adelina Simion about her book, Test-Driven Development in Go
• Interview with Riccardo Pinosio
  • Hugging Face
  • hugot on GitHub
  • ONNX
  • Knights Analytics

• Proposals
  • Accepted: require Linux 3.17 kernel for Go 1.24
    • Previous discussion: Episode 61
  • Accepted: add encoding.AppendText and encoding.AppendBinary
    • Previous discussion: Episode 62
  • Accepted: add HostLayout directive type
  • 🪟 Accepted: Normalize line endings in example output comparisons
• Conference updates
  • 🇮🇱 GopherCon Isreael CFP open until June 30
• 🔒 gosec v2.20.0 released
  • Included in golangci-lint v1.58.2
  • See also: govulncheck
• Open issue: lock down future uses of linkname
  • Related blog post: Accessing Private Functions, Methods, Types and Variables in Go by Yarden Laifenfeld
• Thanks to Miki for filling in!
  • His new book, Effective Go Recipes

• Upcoming conferences
  • 🇯🇵 June 8: Go Conference 2024 @ Tokyo, Japan
  • 🇩🇪 June 17-20: GopherCon EU @ Berlin, Germany
  • 🇳🇱 June 19-21: DevOps Days @ Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • 🇷🇺 June 24-25: Golang Conf 2024 @ St. Petersburg, Russia
• Proposals
  • 👍 Accepted: go telemetry subcommand
    • Previous discussion on Episode 62
  • ⛔ Declined: Notify of new major dependency versions
    • Previous discussion on Episode 62
  • 🆕 New: Make math/rand.Seed a no-op
• The unique package has been implemented
  • ✅ Previous discussion on Episode 33
• Around the community
  • 🤔 Reddit: Is it idiomatic to create a constructor that returns an interface?
  • GitHub CLI 2.49.1 includes contribution from Shay

• Go 1.22.3 & 1.22.10 released
• Proposals
  • Accepted: add binary.Append function
  • Likely accept: new `go telemetry` subcommand
  • Likely decline: Notify about new major versions of dependencies
• Packt book bundle
• Interview with Jamie Tanna
  • Blog: Creating a more sustainable model for `oapi-codegen` in the future
  • Blog: oapi-codegen is moving to its own org
  • on GitHub: github.com/deepmap/oapi-codegen

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• 🆕 Releases
  • Go 1.22.3 & 1.21.10 coming Tuesday
• 🪇 Conferences
  • GopherCon Brazil, May 9 & 10
  • GopherDay Taiwan, May 25
• 🤹 Secure Randomness
  • Blog: Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2
  • Blog: Secure Randomness in Go 1.22 by Russ Cox
  • new proposal: Require Linux kernel 3.17 for Go 1.24
• 🧑‍🔬 Interview with Bartek Nowotarski about Go vulnerability research
  • Blog
  • HackerOne
  • Twitter
  • HTTP/2 RFC9133
  • Luck

• Proposals
  • 🍪 Accepted: support partitioned cookies
    • Article: Prepare for thrid-party cookie restrictions
  • New: add reflect.AssertTo
  • Declined: builtin is[T any](any) bool
• Meetups & Conferences
  • 🇨🇿 Prague Go Meetup, April 23
  • 🇳🇱 Rotterdam Go Meetup, April 23
  • 🌐 Conf42 Golang, April 25, Online
  • 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK CFP closes May 17
  • 🇮🇹 GoLab CFP closes May 6
• Blog: Welcome to the Microsoft for Go Developers Blog
• Blog: Go performance from version 1.0 to 1.22 by Ben Hoyt
• Interview with Paul Jolly
  • CUE web site
  • Twitter
  • LinkedIn

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• 🗳️ 2024 Go Developer Survey
  • Hugot, Huggingface pipelines for Go
  • Why is NPS bad? A blogpost by Jonathan
• 🍕 Meetups
  • 🇺🇸 Denver 
  • 🇺🇸 Atlanta
  • 🇳🇱 Amsterdam
  • 🇮🇱 Israel
• 🧙 An interview with Bill Kennedy
  • Twitter https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet
  • LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-kennedy-5b318778/
  • Ardan Labs https://www.ardanlabs.com/instructors/bill-kennedy/
  • Hanna Hats

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• Go 1.22.2 & 1.21.9 released
  • Blog: HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood by Bartek Nowotarski
  • Blog: HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood: Technical Details by Bartek Nowotarski
• 🗣️ Conferences & CFPs
  • Official Go "Wiki" conferences list
  • 🏴󠁵󠁳󠁵󠁴󠁿 Go West, October TBD @ Lehi, Utah
    • CFP
  • 🌐 Conf42 Golang, April 24 @ Online
  • 🇧🇷 GopherCon Brazil, May 9-10 @ Florianópolis, SC
• Around the community
  • 🤐 Blog: Prevent sensitive data from leaking by Willem Schots
  • Reddit discussion: If you could redesign Go from scratch, what would you change?
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• Meetups
  • GoUAE meetup, Oct 26
  • Go Liepzig
• Proposals
  • proposal: net/http: customize limit on number of 1xx responses (FInal Comment Period)
• Community
  • Is Go the right choice for my startup?
• Lightning round
  • copyloopvar issue: Detect loop vars unnecessarily passed as parameters to goroutines?
  • psql-wire: PostgreSQL server wire protocol. Build your own server and start serving connections
  • new release: Excelize v2.9.0
    • Is Excel immortal?

• Proposals
  • (re)accepted: add slices.Repeat function
  • accepted: report use of too-new standard library symbols with go vet
• From around the community
  • Blog: Context-induced performance bottleneck in Go by Gabriel Augendre
  • New community Q&A site: godev.com, powerd by Apache Answer
  • Blog: Go Enums Still Suck by Steven McCutcheon
    • On Reddit

• 🇮🇹 GoLab 2024 coming up Nov 11-13 in Florence Itally
  • CFP open through May 1
• Proposals
  • 🚫 Declined: time.Parse: letter-based formats
  • 🚫 Declined: support int(bool) conversions
  • 🗨️ Active: add builtin function is[T any](any) bool
  • 🚫 Declined: range over nil function should panic
• Work with Jonathan Hall
• Interview with xiaq
  • 🧝 Elvish web site
  • zsh user manual

• 🇬🇧 Manchester Go Meetup, April 3
• Proposals
  • 🕛 Declined: time: add "1136214245" as layout string for unix timestamp
  • 💪 Active: promote windows/arm64 to first class port
• Go Blog: More powerful Go execution traces
  • Design document: Execution tracer overhaul
• Neovim plugin for gopls documentation links
  • On Reddit
• 👸 Interview with quobix
  • Personal site
  • Princess B33f Heavy Industries
  • libopenapi
  • openapi-changes
  • wiretap
  • vacuum
  • JSON Crack
  • On YouTube
  • API Days conference

• 🛡️ Security releases. Upgrade now!
  • Go 1.22.1 & 1.21.8
  • google.golang.org/protobuf v1.33.0
• 👭 Happy International Women's Day!
• Upcoming meetups & events
  • 🇬🇧 London Gophers, March 20
  • 🇮🇱 Go Israel, March 12
  • 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK
    • Conference, August 14-16
    • CFP is open!
• Accepted proposals: Migrate x/crypto packages into the standard library
• Around the community
  • Go enums suck (hackernews discussion)
  • Reddit: Why does Go have so many traps?
  • Blog: for Loop Semantic Changes in Go 1.22: Be Aware of the Impact
• Interview with Filippo Valsorda
  • Personal web site: https://filippo.io/
  • cryptopals.com challenges
  • Stanford Cryptography course on coursera
  • Recurse Center
  • Read/sign up for Filippo's newsletter/blog
  • The blog post that started it all: I'm now a full-time professional open source maintainer

• 🛡️ Security updates coming on Tuesday
  • Go 1.22.1 & 1.21.8
  • google.golang.org/protobuf and github.com/google/protobuf
• 🧀 Open proposal: use SwissTable to improve hash map performance
• Related releases
  • GopherJS 1.19 beta1 with Go 1.19 support (w/o generics)
  • TinyGo 0.31.0 with Go 1.22 support
• Around the community
  • Upcoming Go Isreal Meetup, March 12 @ Orca
  • GopherVerse, AI-Gopher generator from Creative Fabrica
  • 🔭 GopherWatch, keep tabs on Go modules
    • Created by Mechiel Lukkien, interviewed in episode 3
• Go Blog: Robust generic functions on slices by Valentin Deleplace
• Reddit: My experience with Go as a Python developer
  • 🎙️ glee
• 🏄 Interview with Grant Nelson
  • GopherJS on GitHub
  • Workiva
  • Grant on GitHub

• Meet the hosts
  • Meet Shay: 🇮🇱 Go Israel Meetup, March 12 @ Orca
  • Meet Jonathan: 🇳🇱 Go Amsterdam Meetup, Feb 27 @ Creative Fabrica
• Proposals
  • Declined: 🤐 archive/zip: support for encrypted archives
  • Accepted: 🔁 iter: new package for iterators
  • Accepted: 🗺️ maps: add iterator-related functions
  • Likely accept: 🍕 slices: add iterator-related functions
  • Likely accept: bytes, strings: add iterator forms of existing functions
• Blog post: Questioning Go's range-over-func Proposal by Richard Ulmer
• go generate considered unsafe?

• Proposals:
  • new: add slices.Repeat function
  • accepted: deprecate runtime.GOROOT
• From the Go blog: Routing Enhancements for Go 1.22
• How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years by Mat Ryer
• Weaveworks shutting down
• On Reddit: Go 1.22 yielding a 18% regression in single-threading performance
• On YouTube: Why I Use Golang in 2024 by ThePrimeTime
• Interview with Daniel Martí
  • Projects
    • gofumpt
    • CUE
    • sh
  • Social
    • GitHub
    • Bluesky

• New releases
  • ♬ Go 1.21.7 and 1.20.14 released
  • 🧹 golangci-lint 1.56.1 released, including support for `--show-stats` and John's bugfix
• Conferences and Meetups
  • 🇮🇱 Go Israel March 2024 hosted by Orca Security
• Go 1.22 Feature Rundown
  • Official announcement, release notes, and download link
  • Cool interactive release notes by Anton Zhiyanov
    • The Loopvar bug has been fixed
    • Range over int is now supported with range over func iterators in experimental mode
    • New math/rand package, the first v2 to land in stdlib
    • New HTTP routing, with support for methods and wildcards
      • Much to Shay's chagrin, Accepted: net/http: allow multiple spaces between method and path in mux patterns
    • New Slices package, including a great blog post about the Concat func from Carlana Johnson
    • Better look for "trace" tool's web UI
• Ad break
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• Proposals
  • go build -json accepted
  • allow append(nil, arg) declined (playground link), because of existing alternative
  • go vet: warn about recover in non-deferred function declined, because of lack of data
  • allow multiple spaces between method and path in mux: new proposal
• Releases
  • gofumpt 0.6.0
  • go-elasticsearch v8.12.0 with OT support
• Community
  • ByteByteGo's "How Disney Hotstar Captures One Billion Emojis!" (Medium article alternative)
• Ad break
  • Patreon
  • Gitting Things Done by Omer Rosenbaum

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• News
  • 🧑‍🔧 Go 1.23.2 + 1.22.8 released, mostly backports of fixes 
  • ⏲️ High-Resolution Timers on Windows
  • 🌬️ New release for Air
  • 🔨 Interesting post about code shelf life
• Interview with Willem
  • Site: https://www.willem.dev/
  • Twitter: https://x.com/willemschots
  • LI: https://www.linkedin.com/in/willem-schots/

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• Go 1.22RC2 released
• Take the new Go developer survey
• Learning Go, 2nd edition now available for e-purchase, print coming soon
  • Listen to our interview with the author in Episode 44
• GopherCon talk by Russ Cox: Go Changes
• Highlighting tools
  • goimportcycle
  • typex
    • Reddit thread
  • 🍇 grape
    • Reddit thread

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• Proposals
  • Declined: ASCII output in Go tools, PowerShell investigation underway
  • Likely Accept: `-json` flag for go build
• The new Range syntax
  • Go Wiki: Rangefunc Experiment
  • Range over int, over func proposal
  • Go 1.22 range functions with database/sql
• Blog posts
  • Debugging Go compiler performance in a large codebase
  • JaskaGO’s coordinated strike on macOS and Windows
  • Error handling in Go web apps shouldn't be so awkward

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• Go 1.21.6 & 1.20.13 released
• Conferences
  • GoFunc 2024, March 14-15 online, in Russian
  • FOSDEM, Go Devroom Feb 3-4 in Brussels, Belgium
  • GopherCon EU, Athens, Feb 6-8 in Athens, Greece
• Video/transcript of talk by Rob Pike: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong
• Around the community
  • GitHub's move to generated SDKs
  • Go 1.22: Interactive release notes by Anton Zhiyanov
  • Meet OpenBao, an Open Source Fork of HashiCorp Vault
  • OpenTofu is going GA
  • Apache Answer
  • Pocketbase

• Go 1.22RC1 is out
  • Draft release notes
• golang.org/x/crypto/ssh vulnerability fixed
• CUE 0.7.0 released
  • CUE web site
• Announcing River: fast and reliable background jobs for Go
• Reddit: Why is reinventing the wheel so prominent in Go?
• Reddit: Is it stupid to have a Go backend and NextJs frontend?
• SQLite
  • GitHub: Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers
  • zombiezen.com/go/sqlite 1.0 released
  • Marmot
• Interview with Ross Light
  • Announcement: zombiezen.com/go/sqlite reaches 1.0
  • Blog: Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes
  • Blog: What color is your function?
  • Ross's blog: zombiezen.com

• 🐚 golang.org/x/crypto/ssh fix pre-announcement, upgrade Monday, December 18
• The Go wiki has moved!
• 🗓️ Go 1.22RC1 coming Tuesday, December 19
• Proposals
  • 👎 declined: cmd/compile: allow compile-time override of constants
  • 👎 declined: cmd/go: add language localization support to go doc
• Go blog: Finding unreachable functions with deadcode
• 🐳 Docker whale-comes AtomicJar, maker of Testcontainers
  • Listen to previous interview with go-testcontainers maintainer Manuel de la Peña in episode 38
• 📚 Books
  • Learn Concurrent Programming with Go by James Cutajar
  • Learning Go, 2nd Edition by Jon Bodner, coming January 2024
• Thanks to all our listeners for making the Cup o' Go podcast a success in 2023! We're looking forward to another great year of Going in 2024.
• Interview with Jon Bodner
  • Read the pre-release of Learning Go, 2nd Edition from O'Reilly
  • LinkedIn
  • Jonathan's review of the 1st edition: Written, or Video

• Go 1.21.5 & 1.20.12 released
• Go Developer 2023H2 survey results are in
• Proposals
  • accepted: deadcode command is on the way
  • new: Add localization support to go doc
  • new: Allow compile-time override of constants
• Blog: Optimizing Go string operations with practical examples by Alex Bledea
• This week's sponsor: Jonathan Hall's Fractional Gopher service
• Interview with Mickey Shnaiderman
  • Previous episode with Benthos interview
  • Previous episode with debugging blog post
  • Reco

• Announcements
  • 🔐 Go 1.21.5 & 1.20.12 pre-announcement
  • 🧊 Go 1.22 frozen, this time for real
• Community
  • ☕️ Mattproud's great Reddit answer for Java developers
  • 🐍 Another good blog post from Preslav about Python vs Go
    • Rich Hickey's talk about a similar subject
  • 🦪 Ralf Steube developed a really cool tool for shell completions
  • 🤫 Small Atom from Brandur about mixing a private function so external packages won't implement it
• Interview with Sam Lown, talking about the Go Business Language, dunking on XML, and marveling at the complexity of human society
  • 🦃 GOBL: https://gobl.org/
  • ⭐️ Star the repo: https://github.com/invopop
  • 🧾 Invopop: https://www.invopop.com/
  • 🐦 Sam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/samlown

• CFPs
  • 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe, Berlin.
    • Conference dates June 17-20, 2024
    • CFP open until Feb 18, 2024
  • Paged Out
    • CFP open until Nov 25, 2023
• Proposals
  • 📖 accepted: cmd/doc: support 'go doc package@version' syntax
• Releases
  • 🐍 cobra v1.8.0 released
  • Hugo v0.120.0
  • vscode-go v0.40.0
• From around the community
  • NilAway: Practical Nil Panic Detection for Go
  • 🤖 Go-specific ChatGPT bots
    • GopherBro
    • Moss the Go Expert
    • Golang Mentor
  • Miki Shorts on Arden Labs
• Interview with Webb Morris, founder & CTO of Canopy, who leads development of their Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) platform for smart hardware solutions.
  • Canopy

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Backend Banter!

• Conferences & CFPs
  • 🇧🇪 FOSDEM '24, Feb 3&4 @ Brussels
    • Go Devroom CFP through December 1
  • 🇬🇷 GopherCon EU, Athens, Feb 6-8
    • CFP Through November 19
• 🇧🇷 Ultimate Go Tour from Arden labs now available in Portuguese
  • The original: A Tour of Go
• Proposals
  • ❄️ Accepted: cmd/go: add support for dealing with flaky tests
  • Accepted: x/tools/txtar: implement fs.FS
    • Check out the golang.org/x/tools/txtar package
  • 🦃 Proposal meetings on hold until November 29. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
• Community Updates
  • There won't be a testify/v2
  • Is it a gopher or a walrus, or General Grievous?
  • Video: The Ultimate Go Blueprint Library
  • Video: Debugging Go core dumps
• [Sponsored] Backend Banter is the only podcast dedicated to backend development, technologies, and careers.
• Get 14% off Cup o' Go Merch with coupon code HAPPYBDAY14 through EOY
• Interview with Lucio Moraes
  • The Ultimate Go Tour
  • GitHub repo
  • On LinkedIn

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Backend Banter!

• 🎂 Happy birthday, Go!
  • Go was announced 14 years ago
  • Watch Russ Cox's intro video
• Go 1.21.4 & 1.20.11 released with important Windows security fixes
• Proposals
  • Make deadcode a supported command
  • Memory arenas on hold indefinitely
• Releases
  • 🦍 Gorilla v1.8.1
  • sqlc v1.23.0
    • Related: Announcing sqlc-gen-go
  • sarama 1.42.0
• AWS SDK for Go Aligns with Go Release Policy on Supported Runtimes (Bye-bye Go 1.5 support)
• Around the community
  • Reddit: What Go-related content creators do you follow?
  • Awesome Go
  • On Rands Slack: discussion about Close() vs GC
    • Request an invitation to the Rands leadership slack
  • Go Case Studies
• [Sponsored] Backend Banter is the only podcast dedicated to backend development, technologies, and careers.

No episode this week, as Shay's celebrating Rosh Hashana and John's moving countries. So enjoy this replay of our interview with John Arundel from episode 21 of the show!

• Interview with Go 👨‍🏫 teacher and 📚 author, John Arundel
  • On Twitter: @bitfield
  • On LinkedIn: bitfieldconsulting
  • Web site: bitfieldconsulting.com
  • Video: Things in Go I Never Use by Mat Ryer
  • Video: What is the best book to learn Go in 2023?

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Backend Banter!

• 🛡️ Security pre-release announcement
  • Go 1.21.4 and 1.20.11 coming on Tuesday, November 7
• Conferences
  • 🇮🇪 GopherCon Ireland yesterday
  • 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore ongoing, yesterday and today
  • 🇬🇧 Fyne Conf today
  • 🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, November 10-11
  • 🇨🇳 GopherChina, November 19
  • 🇮🇹 GoLab, Italy, November 19-21
• Proposals
  • Accepted: new package with unique.Handle
    • Blog post: netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go by Brad Fitzpatrick
  • ℹ️ New: Standardize -help output
    • Alternate proposal: show the help when the --help/-h flag is passed
  • New: bytes: add Reader methods Buffered, Peek, and Discard
  • Benchmarks:
    • On Hold: testing: add Keep, to force evaluation in benchmarks
    • Accepted: testing: add testing.B.Loop for iteration
• Blog post: Unmasking a Go HTML Parser Bug with Differential Fuzzing by Maciej Mionskowski
  • Related project: radamsa, test case generator for fuzzing
• Discussion: "Real" Go projects that would be considered idiomatic
• pex, a tool to make piping easier
  • On GitHub
  • Demo video
• Podcast: Security Cryptography Whatever
• [Sponsored] Backend Banter is the only podcast dedicated to backend development, technologies, and careers.
• 📦 testcontainers interview with Manuel de la Peña
  • Web site for Testcontainers for Go
  • On GitHub
  • Latest release: v0.26.0
  • Follow Manuel
    • GitHub
    • LinkedIn

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Backend Banter!

• Proposals
  • Accepted: spec: add range over int, range over func
    • Range over int targeted for Go 1.22
    • Range over func targeted for Go 1.22 behind the GOEXPERIMENT=rangefunc flag
  • Accepted: go/version: package for handling Go version strings
  • Accepted: io/fs, net/http: new interface for automatic ETag serving
• Conferences
  • 🧭 GoWest happening TODAY in Lehi, Utah, and online
• Releases
  • golangci-lint v1.55
  • 🛋️ Kivik v4.0
• 📚 Books
  • Learn Go with Pocket Sized Projects (discount code)
    • Jonathan's review
  • GoBooks repository
• [Sponsored] Backend Banter is the only podcast dedicated to backend development, technologies, and careers.
• 🛡️ Interview with Juho Nurminen of Mattermost
  • Social
    • Twitter
    • Mastodon
  • Blog posts
  • cmd/go: go.mod toolchain directive allows arbitrary execution
  • Proposals mentioned
    • os/exec: return ErrDot from LookPath when argument is relative
    • html/template: full support for JS template literals
    • html/template: rewrite JS parser
    • html/template: use x/net/html for parsing
  • Resources
    • PortSwigger
    • HackerOne

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!

• gopls v0.14.0-pre4 released
  • Previous discussion about opt-in telemetry in episode 12
• GopherCon Brazil
  • Conference: May 9, 2024 in Florianópolis, SC
  • CFP open until December 15, 2023
• "Forward compatibility" pains
  • Go modules initialised by go1.21.1 cannot be built using go1.20.8
  • Using go mod tidy on v1.21+ breaks usage of older Go mod
• Third-party compression library: github.com/klauspost/compress
• New book: gRPC Microservices in Go by Hüseyin Babal
• Go Blog: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Type Inference — And a Little Bit More by Robert Griesemer
• Fyne community contributions
  • fyne-streamer: Audio/Video Widget
  • DiagramWidget
  • And don't forget about Fyne Conf coming November 3 in Edinburgh
• [Sponsored] Get $50 in free Koyeb credit by filling out a 2-second form, with code cupogo: https://form.typeform.com/to/HcwWKsAz
• Eliav Lavi
  • lunar.dev
  • Twitter: @eliavlavi

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!

• Go 1.21.3 and 1.20.10 released
• Proposals
  • Retracted: untyped builtin zero
  • Accepted: Move wiki to x/website
    • Related discussion (closed for now): Should the Go project stop importing GitHub PRs?
  • Ongoing discussion: encoding/json/v2
    • Checkout last week's episode for related interview with Joe Tsai
• Viper v1.17 released with slog support
• Conferences and events
  • Go Israel meetup, November 7
  • Go Amsterdam meetup, November 21 (tentative)
• Around the community
  • Reddit: What problem did Go solve for Google?
  • Blog: A Deep Look Into Golang Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) by Yahya Sayad Arbabi
    • Related interview from episode 31 with Peeter Seebach aka Seebs
• [Sponsored] Koyeb new feature alert: Built-in Observability to Monitor Your Apps Performances
• Find the show on YouTube now. "Like and subscribe!"
• 🧬 Interview with Tim Stiles about Poly, a Go package for engineering organisms.
  • Poly
  • GitHub Profile