Cup o' Go

Seems like more than one!
Visit cupogo.dev for all the things.

This week:

• Go 1.27.2 and Go 1.26.9 are released
• Accepted: add cgo without a C toolchain as a GOEXPERIMENT (and the original one)
• Accepted: deprecate DNSConfigError
• Lightning round:
  • Job with Dave! 
  • Update on past news: "proposal: spec: allow explicit conversion from function to 1-method interface" Declined 

Recorded as part of GoSF. Thanks Bill for co-hosting, and Antithesis for hosting!

• 🇯🇵 GopherCon Japan
• 🪝 Guest Posts: Hooking into the Go Toolchain
• 🦙 go-llama

Thanks for listening! Find all the things at cupogo.dev.

• Meetups roundup:
  • 🇮🇹 GoLab
  • 🇺🇸🌁 GoSF
  • 🇯🇵 TinyGo 2026
  • 🇮🇱 Gophercon Israel Cancelled :(
• Blogoverse deep dives
  • Data races and the limits of ThreadSanitizer in C and Go
  • cloudx-io/setup-go
• Lightning round
  • Ebitengine v2.10.0 Released
  • Zeno Rocha on X on Render's Go re-write
  • Fyne Conf 2026:1b When Applications Design Themslves

• golang.org/x/tools v0.50.0 released
  • Blog: Finding unreachable functions with deadcode by Alan Donovan
• Russ Cox leaves google, and opines on LLMs for debugging
• Coding agent guidelines for modern Go
• Jonathan's new podcast: Better Than Vibes
• Interview with Ron Evans
  • TinyGo
  • Yzma
  • Oxide
  • The Citizen Developer
  • awesome-tinygo
  • kronk
  • TinyGo Conference 2026
  • GoLab
  • Go Education Project
  • Charm

• Conferences and Meetups
  • Fyne Conf 2026 @ Eindhoven, NL, Sept 11
  • West/Central African Gophers Meetup, Sept 31 Online
  • GopherCon Africa 2026 @ Nairobi, Kenya, Oct 15-17
• Releases
  • Go 1.27.1 and Go 1.26.8
    • Reddit discussion
  • golang.org/x/crypto v0.56.0
  • TinyGo 0.42
  • gopherlint 1.27.1
• Accepted proposal: net/http.MethodQuery constant
• Blog: twice as fast or 1.5x slower? Go 1.27 encoding/json/v2

In which Jonathan and Shay dig through the top highlights of Go's new release, Go 1.27!

• Release notes
• Interactive release notes
• "If you use this package, you will go straight to hell."

Visit cupogo.dev for our website which has various hyperlinks to other websites and is made of mostly 1s and 0s.

This episode is sponsored by C1.ai! Thanks C1.ai for hosting the podcast and the meetup. C1.ai is hiring!

Thanks James Heller for co-hosting <3 This episode was recorded live at C1.ai as part of GoSF Meetups which Shay helps organize. If you're in the Bay Area, we'd love to have you.

For all the links go to cupogo.dev.

• News
  • Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering
  • Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore
  • GitHub MCP Server 1.8.0
• Interview with C1's CTO, Paul Querna

• 🧶 Proposal: remove string(int)
• Go 1.26.6 & 1.25.13 released
• Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/mod
• ⚡ Lightning round
  • 🪵 Logrus v1.10.0 released
  • chi v5.3.2 released
  • 💩 CRAP Report
• Interview with the Gaal team
  • Gaal project
    • Web site
    • GitHub
    • X
    • Bluesky
  • Greg Qualls
    • Web site
    • GitHub
    • X
    • Bluesky
    • LinkedIn
  • Guilluame Moigneu
    • GitHub
    • X
    • Bluesky
    • LinkedIn
  • Michael Gaillard
    • GitHub

• Go 1.26.6 & 1.25.13 pre-release announcement
• Go SF Meetup, Aug 26
• GopherCon Israel CFP extended through Aug 15
• Discussion: A more robust proposal process
• Interview with Kemal Akkoyun
  • Episode 44: Interview with Jon Bodner
  • Datadog APM
  • checklocks