• Go 1.24rc1 is out. Start testing it!
• golang.org/x/net v0.33.0 released with security patches for golang.org/x/net/html
• 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore coming up, Jan 22-24
• 1.24 in preview
  • 🧶 New iterator functions added to the bytes and strings packages
  • 🗺️ sync.Map has a new, faster implementation
  • The testing package's T and F types now expose a Context() method
• Proposals
  • ➿ x/exp/xiter: new package with iterator adapters
  • 🗂️ os: add iterator variant of File.ReadDir
• Lightning round
  • 🌈 Bifröst is an advanced SSH server, written in Go
  • github.com/gliderlabs/ssh wraps the crypto/ssh package with a higher-level API for building SSH servers
  • 👩‍🍳 Go Recipes
  • pi.dev, generate podcasts for the repos you love
  • sketch.dev, Go playground alternative

• golang.org/x/crypto security update
• Go 1.24 draft release notes
• Blog: What's missing from Golang Generics? by Nick Tobey
• Lightning Round
  • Blog: Weak Pointers in Go: Why They Matter Now by Phuong Le
  • Orchestrion: Compile-time auto-instrumentation for Go
  • Building a distributed log using S3 (under 150 lines of Go)
  • Video: Rethinking Domain-Driven Design in Go: From Myths to Reduced Project Complexity by Robert Laszczak

• Go 1.23.4 and 1.22.10 released
• Proposals
  • Accepted & implemented: testing: shuffle seed should be different when -shuffle=on and -count flag is set
    • CL
  • New: cmd/vet: add check for sync.WaitGroup abuse
  • Accepted: cmd/vet: warn about structs marked json omitempty
  • New: runtime/mainthread: add mainthread.Do for mediating access to the main thread
• Lightning Round
  • github.com/bitfield/qrand -- Quantum random numbers
  • Blog post: I stan clearing maps, no cap by Phil Pearl

This week Jonathan and Shay go deep into FIPS, cryptography, and security, and interview Alex Scheel about it as well!

• Proposals
  • Go moves toward FIPS-140
    • 🎚️ crypto: mechanism to enable FIPS mode #70123
    • 🎛️ proposal: cmd/go: add fips140 module selection mechanism #70200
    • ↪️ crypto/tls: add ConnectionState.CurveID #67516
• Community
  • 👮 Writing secure Go code by Jakub Jarosz
  • 🧳 r/golang - Who's hiring - November 2024
• Ad break
  • 🔗 Find all the links, including Patreon, on cupogo.dev.
  • 🤝 Follow us now on LinkedIn.
  • 🗼 KeepHQ! AIOps for the masses.
• Interview with Alex Scheel
  • cipherboy~, Alex's site
  • FIPS 140-3 Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules
  • the cryptopals crypto challenges
  • Manage, store, and distribute sensitive data with OpenBao

• 🇩🇪 Hannover Go meetup, Nov 19
• 🎂 Go Blog: Go Turns 15 
• 📊 Video: The Business of Go by Cameron Balahan
• Proposals
  • Accepted: End support for macOS 11 in go 1.25
  • New discussion: Memory regions
• 🗲 Lightning round
  • 🛞 Watermill 1.4: Event-Driven library for Go
  • 🛩️ Package singleflight provides a duplicate function call suppression mechanism.
  • 🧟 Creating a Brainrot Language Server in Golang by Jitesh Kumar Sahoo

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• 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 [email protected]

• 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

Happy Sukkot 🏕️! Find John & Shay at cupogo.dev, where you can find links to our Slack channel, Swag store, Patreon community, and the entire Cup o' Go episode archive.

• 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?

• 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/