• Go 1.20.4 & 1.19.9 coming tomorrow
• Conf42: Golang talks available online
• Text marshaling & unmarshaling added to regexp package for 1.21
  • Jonathan's video about the proposal, acceptance, and change process
• Blog post: WebSockets: Scale at Fractional Footprint in Go
• Reddit question: Which books should I read as an experienced Go developer?
  • Shay's recommendation: Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppman & Benjamin Lange
  • Jonathan's recommendation: Go Fundamentals by Mark Bates & Cory Lanou (Jonathan's review)
• Blog post: FireScroll - A Highly available multi-region KV database with massive read scalability

On the news this week:

• 🇧🇷 GopherCon Brasil CFP open until May 3 
• 🇮🇹 GoLab 2023 CFP open closes on May 21 
• 💬 io/fs: writeable interface new discussion asking for use cases. If you have a project that uses a writeable abstraction interface, go there!
• ✅ GOEXPERIMENT=loopvar is in! Will be included in 1.21 
• 🍵 gitea v1.19.1 released with breaking changes 
• ᚬ log/slog: Add vet checks for variadic inputs discussion in GitHub and our Slack
• ⛙ context.Merge is on hold until AfterFunc has been out in the wild for a while to see if the proposal will need to be resurfaced

Interview with Fraser Williams and Callum Williams from Go Tek. If you're looking for a Go job, contact them via LinkedIn!

• Go 1.20.3 & 1.19.8 released. Upgrade now!
• Proposal accepted: Opt-in transparent telementry
• New proposal: sort: add Ordered, Min, Max
• Conf42: Golang, April 20
• Go OpenAI 1.7 released
• Natalie Pistunovich's GopherCon Israel talk: AI-Assisted Go: Up Your Game and Have More Fun (Hebrew)
• gofumpt 0.5.0 released
• cobra v1.7.0 released
• FerretDB 1.0 GA released
  • Reddit discussion
• GoLand 2023.1 released
• goreleaser v1.17.0 and v1.17.1 released
• ws v1.2.0 released
• Want to work with Shay? Reach out at mrnice.dev

• [April Fool] Sound of Silence reaction
• Go 1.20.3 & 1.19.8 coming tomorrow
• [April Fool] Go Compiler Now Supports Morse Code
• Conf42: Golang, free online conference, April 20
• Ebitengine 2.5.0 with XBox support
• Proposals and discussions
  • Open issue: Mockable time support
  • Discussion: Should Plan9 support be dropped or forked?
  • Likely accept: add context.AfterFunc
  • Many active and open proposals related to structured logging
• Blog post: Go linters configuration, the right version by Oleg Kovalov
• Blog post: 6 Ways To Boost the Performance of Your Go Applications by Mehmet Sezer
• Reddit: What other languages have charactaristics similar to Go?

• Coming in Go 1.21
  • Blog post: Planning Go 1.21 Cryptography Work by Filippo Valsorda
  • disallow anonymous interface cycles
  • purego implementation of hash/maphash
• Releases
  • v8go v0.9.0
  • gitea v1.19.0
  • go-github v50.2.0
• Community news
  • Shay Nehmad's make-git-better CTF
  • Go Time podcast
  • chatGPT-plugin-template on GitHub
    • The tweet
    • Daniel Nephin's gotest.tools and gotestsum
  • GitHub Actions and Go by Oleg Kovalov
    • golangci-lint

• golangci-lint 1.52.0 released
• revive 1.3.0 & 1.3.1 released
• fasthttp v1.45.0 released
  • Last week's interview with fasthttp maintainer, Erik Dubbelboer
• Conf42: Golang 2023 last call for CFPs
• Proposal accepted: log/slog: structured, leveled logging
• Proposal: add opt-in transparent telemetry to Go toolchain
• Proposal: notification callback for cancelled/expired contexts
• Proposal: improve ergonomics of fmt.Print-like functions
• PGO will be auto by default in Go 1.21
• Rant
  • Reddit: What "sucks" about Golang?
  • Lies we tell ourselves to keep using Golang
  • I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride
  • Jonathan's Video: 10 Things I Hate about Go
• Interview with Tamir Friedman
  • Beyond Go slides
  • GopherJS: Go to JavaScript transpiler
  • otto: JavaScript parser and interpreter written natively in Go
  • v8go
  • kivik: CouchDB client library for Go
  • Go Israel March 2023 meetup

• Go 1.20.2 & 1.19.7 released
  • Go 1.20.2 milestone
  • Go 1.19.7 milestone
• goreleaser v1.16.0 & v1.16.1 released
  • OpenCollective
  • Babel.js
  • Women Who Code
• Proposals
  • Accepted: Add testing.Testing() bool function
  • New: Track tool usage in go.mod
  • New: Opt-in transparent telemetry
• Introducing ngrok-go: Ingress to your Go Apps as a net.Listener
• Code coverage for Go integration tests
• Conferences
  • Finall call for CFP to GopherCon in San Diego
• Erik Dubbelboer
  • On GitHub: https://github.com/erikdubbelboer  
  • fasthttp
  • Amsterdam Golang Meetup

• Opting In to Transparent Telemetry by Russ Cox
• Accepted proposal: net/http: add ResponseController.EnableFullDuplex
• Last call for comments: log/slog: structured, leveled logging
• BadgerDB v4.0.1 released
• dominikbraun/graph v0.16.0 released
• Service Weaver announced by Google
• conc v0.3.0 released
• Technology Trends for 2023 by O'Reilly Media
• Conferences
  • GopherChina, June 9-11
• xc
  • Web site: xcfile.dev
  • On GitHub
• Interview notes
  • Transistor.fm podcast hosting
  • Riverside.fm audio/video recording
  • Audacity open-source audio software
  • Trello
  • Jonathan's other content
    • Daily Go newsletter
    • Boldly Go YouTube channel
    • Tiny DevOps podcast
    • Adventures in DevOps podcast
  • News sources
    • golang-announce Google group
    • Go Proposals review meeting minutes
    • The Go Blog
    • Golang Weekly newsletter
  • Favorite podcasts
    • Ditching Hourly with Jonathan Stark
    • Deep Questions with Cal Newport
    • No Nonsense Agile
    • Hidden Brain
    • Art of Manliness
    • Revolutions

Shay is out this week, so Jonathan is holding down the fort on his own, in this shortest ever episode of Cup o' Go!

• Gin v1.9.0 released
• Labstack Echo v4.10.2 released
• Declined proposal: don't reformat single line if statements
• New proposal: use a zero for third digit for major release, such as 'go1.23.0'
• Active proposal: structured, leveled logging
• Conf42: Golang, online April 20, 2023
  • CFP
• We miss you, Shay!
• Awesome Go

This week's episode sponsored by Keep, an open-source alerting tool built by developers, for developers.

• Security fixes in Go 1.20.1, 1.19.6, golang.org/x/image, and golang.org/x/image/tiff
  • Go 1.20.1 changes
  • Go 1.19.6 changes
  • Labstack Echo v4.10.1
• TinyGo 0.27.0 changes
• Golang Weekly newsletter
• Purego, a library for calling C functions from Go without Cgo.
• Accepted proposal: New standard library package based on x/exp/slices
• Go Blog: All your comparable types by Robert Griesemer
• Go-Redis is now an official Redis client
• plumber v2.1.0
• Reddit discussion: What are the best alternatives to gorilla session?
• FOSDEM'23 talk: Our Mad Journey of Building a Vector Database in Go
• Interview with Daniel Nephin
  • On GitHub
  • gotestsum
  • gotest.tools

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