Cup o' Go – Details, episodes & analysis

• 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