• 🛡️ Security updates
  • Go 1.23.5, 1.22.11, and 1.24RC2 coming Jan 16
  • github.com/golang/glog v1.2.4 released last week
• Go 1.24 interactive tour
• Proposals
  • On hold: container/unordered: a generic hash table with custom hash function and equivalence relation
  • #️⃣ Active: hash: standardize the hash function
• Blog post: Go is a Well-Designed Language, Actually by Matt Hall
• Hugo v0.141.0 released
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • CL: Grammar nit fix inspired by last week's Boldly Go: Daily post
  • ☮️ Video: Building my first project with Go by Peaceful Programmer
  • Pixel2, 2D game library in Go

• 🪵 github.com/golang/glog fix pre-announcement
• Conferences
  • 🇧🇷 GopherCon LATAM @ Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, May 5-6
  • 🇩🇪 GopherCon EU @ Berlin, Germany, June 16-19
    • CFP through February 23
  • 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK @ London, UK, August 13-15
    • CFP starts March 1
• go-safeweb
  • On Hacker News
• 🦀 GoReleaser 2.5 includes Zig & Rust support
  • Coming soon: GoReleaser 2.6
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • Blog: Leveraging benchstat Projections in Go Benchmark Analysis! by Bartek Płotka
  • Golang Nugget
  • Golang Weekly
  • Applied Go Weekly
• Testing discussion
  • Blog: if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests by Michael Lynch
  • Reddit discussion

    
    

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• 🇮🇪 Go Ireland relaunch - tcube Dublin on Feb 6th.
• 🦀 Rust GOes Async on Alexander Fadeev's blog
  • Hello Internet podcast
• 🗳️ Go Developer Survey 2024 H2 Results
• 🗣️ Best practices of using Go and Prometheus in Kubernetes environment
• Wails: YouTube video + grpcmd

• 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
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  • 🤝 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]