Cup o' Go

• 🇩🇪 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/

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

For show notes, swag store, Patreon community, and past episodes, visit cupogo.dev.

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