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• 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

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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

• Go 1.23.1 & 1.22.7 released
• 🚫 Proposal accepted: encoding/json: add omitzero option
  • Episode 34: Interview with Joe Tsai about encoding/json/v2
• ✍️ script v0.23.0
  • Episode 56: Interview wit xiaq, author of Elvish  
  • Episode 21: Interview with John Arundel
• Go blog: Telemetry in Go 1.23 and beyond by Robert Findley
• Running Go on a Raspberry Pi (הרצת גו על רספברי פיי)
• 🌩️ Lightning Round
  • 🚣‍♀️ river v0.10.0
  • AriaSQL
    • On Reddit
  • 🍜 OpenTofu Registry gets a User Interface
    • Episode 30: Interview with Ohad Maislish about OpenTofu
• Interview with Elliott Minns from Dreams of Code
  • Watch the interview on YouTube
  • Dreams of Code on YouTube
  • Web site: dreamsofcode.io

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• Conferences roundup
  • 🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel Sep 9th https://www.gophercon.org.il/
  • 🇩🇪 Fyne Conf 2024 Sep 20th https://conf.fyne.io/
  • 🌐 GoFunc Oct 3rd https://gofunc.ru/
  • 🇰🇪 GopherCon Africa Oct 18th-19th https://nairobi.gophers.africa/
  • 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore https://2024.gophercon.sg/
  • 🇮🇹 GoLab Nov 11th-13th https://golab.io/
• Proposals
  • ✄ proposal: debug/bisect: publish x/tools/internal/bisect
  • ⚠️ proposal: errors: add All and AllAs iterators
• Releases
  • 🗃️ Cue 0.10.0 with experimental embed support
• ⚡️ Lightning round
  • 🐣 You're not mature enough to release your first version as v1
  • 🏃 New release for FIT: Garmin watch protocol in Go
  • 💬 The most exciting part of Go 1.23
  • 🗺️ Open Source database diagram editor

• 🎉 Go 1.23 is here!
• Blog: Range Over Function Types by Ian Lance Taylor
  • A look at the spec: Tree walking with range-over-func by Jonathan Hall
• Conferences & CFPs
  • 🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, Nov 7-8 Sydney, Australia
    • CFP closes Sept 15
  • 🇺🇸 GoWest, Oct 25, Lehi, Utah, USA
    • Still accepting lightning talks
    • Lane Wagner
      • boot.dev
      • Lane Wagner on Cup o' Go
      • Jonathan Hall on Backend Banter
  • 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore
    • CFP closes Aug 26
  • 🇩🇪 FyneConf, Sept 20, Berlin, Germany
    • CFP closes today, Aug 23
  • 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK 2024 talks are now online!
• Proposal accepted: add Context method to testing.T
• 🌩️ Lightning round
  • timelinize
  • Blog: gRPC over HTTP/3 by Kevin McDonald
  • Jonathan's wasmws fork & the original

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• 🏛️ Go 1.22.6 & 1.21.13 released  
• 🕵️ CVE-2024-24790 explained (and scored on Synk)
• 🧪 Likely accept: add Context method to testing.T
• 🧑‍💻 StackOverflow 2024 developer survey results

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• 🫡 Leadership Transition in the Go Project
• 🧑‍⚖️ Proposals
  • Accepted: Adding Text() to the crypto/rand library
  • Proposal (likely decline): add crypt(3) compatibility in the stdlib
  • Active Proposal: Telemetry in Delve
• 🤝 Community
  • GopherCon EU 2024 videos have been uploaded online 
  • 🎮 GameDev
    • New minor version for ebitengine
    • Go for RPG tutorial on YouTube by CodingWithSphere
• 🏎️ Lightning round
  • 💰 Go & Money
  • 🔐 Quantum-Safe TLS
  • 🐑 New ollama release

• 📝 Go 1.23: Interactive release notes
• New proposals
  • runtime: add AddCleanup and deprecate SetFinalizer
  • 👉 weak: new package providing weak pointers
• 💪 Bufstream enters public beta
• Lightning Round
  • Profiling in Go: A Practical Guide by Noam Yadgar
  • Cogent Core initial release
  • New RansomHub Ransomware Version
• Interview with Alice Merrick
  • Previous episode 59: All about community

News this week:

• 🆕 rc2 is out 
  • Google Groups notice
  • The actual Merge List
• 🇰🇪 GopherCon Africa Oct 18-19
• Does Go benefit more from copilot than other languages?
• Range-over-func demystified
  • Zach Musgrave's post from dolthub; Go range iterators demystified
  • John's take on it; First impressions of Go 1.23's range-over-func feature
• ⚡️ Lightning round
  • "This cli component was trickier to build than I thought" by Dreams of Code on YouTube
  • Introducing Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go by Spike Curtis
  • ov - feature rich terminal pager release v0.35.0

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