Cup o' Go

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?

Join us at Orca Security! New roles for Go Developers opened, hand in your CV (and tell 'em Shay sent you :) )

• Backend Developer
• Runtime Security Researcher
• Agent Developer
• DevOps Engineer

• Proposals
  • 🕸️ cmd/compile: relax wasm/wasm32 function import signature type constraints
    • "Types" in the WASM spec
  • 🍗 runtime: add a way to check if fd is used by go runtime
    • runC Escape Vulnerability CVE-2024-21626 write-up
• Blog Posts
  • 💾 Register allocation in the Go compiler
  • 🏷️ What's in an (Alias) Name?
• Lightning Round
  • 🧑‍✈️ Go Singleflight Melts in Your Code, Not in Your DB
  • 🚫 cmd/go: change go test to FAIL if -run is specified but no tests match
  • 📊 Felix Geisendörfer's bugfix for fgprof

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Discussions & Proposals

📊 metrics for the standard library
🗑️ gorename deprecation
📄 Documentation update for telemetry intentions
(psst; remember to run `go telemetry on`)
🚮 log/slog: add slog.DiscardHandler

Blog posts

🤖 Building LLM-powered applications in Go
❤️‍🩹 I hate that I like Golang

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• Proposals
  • 🗜️ Accepted: Add new compress/zstd package
    • Previously discussed in Episode 31
  • 🧼 Accepted: runtime: add AddCleanup and deprecate SetFinalizer
    • Previously discussed in Episode 73
  • 🗜️ Accepted: refuse to generate and/or use RSA keys smaller than 1024 bits
• 🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel 2024, thoughts byy Shay Nehmad
• ❄️ Blog post: New unique package by Michael Knyszek
  • Previously discussed in Episode 33 and Episode 38
• Go malware capable of cross-platform backdoor attacks
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • garble, Obfuscate Go code
  • ecs, the Entity Component System
  • Please participate in the Go Developer Survey!
    • Interview with Alice Merrick in Episode 73
• Interview
  • Ran Bar-Zik https://x.com/barzik
  • Gil Adda https://www.linkedin.com/in/gil-adda-6117b9/

  • CyberArk

• Go 1.23.1 & 1.22.7 released
• 🚫 Proposal accepted: encoding/json: add omitzero option
  • Episode 34: Interview with Joe Tsai about encoding/json/v2
• ✍️ script v0.23.0
  • Episode 56: Interview wit xiaq, author of Elvish  
  • Episode 21: Interview with John Arundel
• Go blog: Telemetry in Go 1.23 and beyond by Robert Findley
• Running Go on a Raspberry Pi (הרצת גו על רספברי פיי)
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • 🚣‍♀️ river v0.10.0
  • AriaSQL
    • On Reddit
  • 🍜 OpenTofu Registry gets a User Interface
    • Episode 30: Interview with Ohad Maislish about OpenTofu
• Interview with Elliott Minns from Dreams of Code
  • Watch the interview on YouTube
  • Dreams of Code on YouTube
  • Web site: dreamsofcode.io

Thanks to Jamie Tanna for joining as Co-host!
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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