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• Go 1.21.6 & 1.20.13 released
• Conferences
  • GoFunc 2024, March 14-15 online, in Russian
  • FOSDEM, Go Devroom Feb 3-4 in Brussels, Belgium
  • GopherCon EU, Athens, Feb 6-8 in Athens, Greece
• Video/transcript of talk by Rob Pike: What We Got Right, What We Got Wrong
• Around the community
  • GitHub's move to generated SDKs
  • Go 1.22: Interactive release notes by Anton Zhiyanov
  • Meet OpenBao, an Open Source Fork of HashiCorp Vault
  • OpenTofu is going GA
  • Apache Answer
  • Pocketbase

• Go 1.22RC1 is out
  • Draft release notes
• golang.org/x/crypto/ssh vulnerability fixed
• CUE 0.7.0 released
  • CUE web site
• Announcing River: fast and reliable background jobs for Go
• Reddit: Why is reinventing the wheel so prominent in Go?
• Reddit: Is it stupid to have a Go backend and NextJs frontend?
• SQLite
  • GitHub: Benchmarks for Golang SQLite Drivers
  • zombiezen.com/go/sqlite 1.0 released
  • Marmot
• Interview with Ross Light
  • Announcement: zombiezen.com/go/sqlite reaches 1.0
  • Blog: Go and SQLite: when database/sql chafes
  • Blog: What color is your function?
  • Ross's blog: zombiezen.com

• 🐚 golang.org/x/crypto/ssh fix pre-announcement, upgrade Monday, December 18
• The Go wiki has moved!
• 🗓️ Go 1.22RC1 coming Tuesday, December 19
• Proposals
  • 👎 declined: cmd/compile: allow compile-time override of constants
  • 👎 declined: cmd/go: add language localization support to go doc
• Go blog: Finding unreachable functions with deadcode
• 🐳 Docker whale-comes AtomicJar, maker of Testcontainers
  • Listen to previous interview with go-testcontainers maintainer Manuel de la Peña in episode 38
• 📚 Books
  • Learn Concurrent Programming with Go by James Cutajar
  • Learning Go, 2nd Edition by Jon Bodner, coming January 2024
• Thanks to all our listeners for making the Cup o' Go podcast a success in 2023! We're looking forward to another great year of Going in 2024.
• Interview with Jon Bodner
  • Read the pre-release of Learning Go, 2nd Edition from O'Reilly
  • LinkedIn
  • Jonathan's review of the 1st edition: Written, or Video

• Go 1.21.5 & 1.20.12 released
• Go Developer 2023H2 survey results are in
• Proposals
  • accepted: deadcode command is on the way
  • new: Add localization support to go doc
  • new: Allow compile-time override of constants
• Blog: Optimizing Go string operations with practical examples by Alex Bledea
• This week's sponsor: Jonathan Hall's Fractional Gopher service
• Interview with Mickey Shnaiderman
  • Previous episode with Benthos interview
  • Previous episode with debugging blog post
  • Reco

• Announcements
  • 🔐 Go 1.21.5 & 1.20.12 pre-announcement
  • 🧊 Go 1.22 frozen, this time for real
• Community
  • ☕️ Mattproud's great Reddit answer for Java developers
  • 🐍 Another good blog post from Preslav about Python vs Go
    • Rich Hickey's talk about a similar subject
  • 🦪 Ralf Steube developed a really cool tool for shell completions
  • 🤫 Small Atom from Brandur about mixing a private function so external packages won't implement it
• Interview with Sam Lown, talking about the Go Business Language, dunking on XML, and marveling at the complexity of human society
  • 🦃 GOBL: https://gobl.org/
  • ⭐️ Star the repo: https://github.com/invopop
  • 🧾 Invopop: https://www.invopop.com/
  • 🐦 Sam's Twitter: https://twitter.com/samlown

• CFPs
  • 🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe, Berlin.
    • Conference dates June 17-20, 2024
    • CFP open until Feb 18, 2024
  • Paged Out
    • CFP open until Nov 25, 2023
• Proposals
  • 📖 accepted: cmd/doc: support 'go doc package@version' syntax
• Releases
  • 🐍 cobra v1.8.0 released
  • Hugo v0.120.0
  • vscode-go v0.40.0
• From around the community
  • NilAway: Practical Nil Panic Detection for Go
  • 🤖 Go-specific ChatGPT bots
    • GopherBro
    • Moss the Go Expert
    • Golang Mentor
  • Miki Shorts on Arden Labs
• Interview with Webb Morris, founder & CTO of Canopy, who leads development of their Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) platform for smart hardware solutions.
  • Canopy

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Backend Banter!

• Conferences & CFPs
  • 🇧🇪 FOSDEM '24, Feb 3&4 @ Brussels
    • Go Devroom CFP through December 1
  • 🇬🇷 GopherCon EU, Athens, Feb 6-8
    • CFP Through November 19
• 🇧🇷 Ultimate Go Tour from Arden labs now available in Portuguese
  • The original: A Tour of Go
• Proposals
  • ❄️ Accepted: cmd/go: add support for dealing with flaky tests
  • Accepted: x/tools/txtar: implement fs.FS
    • Check out the golang.org/x/tools/txtar package
  • 🦃 Proposal meetings on hold until November 29. Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
• Community Updates
  • There won't be a testify/v2
  • Is it a gopher or a walrus, or General Grievous?
  • Video: The Ultimate Go Blueprint Library
  • Video: Debugging Go core dumps
• [Sponsored] Backend Banter is the only podcast dedicated to backend development, technologies, and careers.
• Get 14% off Cup o' Go Merch with coupon code HAPPYBDAY14 through EOY
• Interview with Lucio Moraes
  • The Ultimate Go Tour
  • GitHub repo
  • On LinkedIn

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Backend Banter!

• 🎂 Happy birthday, Go!
  • Go was announced 14 years ago
  • Watch Russ Cox's intro video
• Go 1.21.4 & 1.20.11 released with important Windows security fixes
• Proposals
  • Make deadcode a supported command
  • Memory arenas on hold indefinitely
• Releases
  • 🦍 Gorilla v1.8.1
  • sqlc v1.23.0
    • Related: Announcing sqlc-gen-go
  • sarama 1.42.0
• AWS SDK for Go Aligns with Go Release Policy on Supported Runtimes (Bye-bye Go 1.5 support)
• Around the community
  • Reddit: What Go-related content creators do you follow?
  • Awesome Go
  • On Rands Slack: discussion about Close() vs GC
    • Request an invitation to the Rands leadership slack
  • Go Case Studies
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• 🛡️ Security pre-release announcement
  • Go 1.21.4 and 1.20.11 coming on Tuesday, November 7
• Conferences
  • 🇮🇪 GopherCon Ireland yesterday
  • 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore ongoing, yesterday and today
  • 🇬🇧 Fyne Conf today
  • 🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, November 10-11
  • 🇨🇳 GopherChina, November 19
  • 🇮🇹 GoLab, Italy, November 19-21
• Proposals
  • Accepted: new package with unique.Handle
    • Blog post: netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go by Brad Fitzpatrick
  • ℹ️ New: Standardize -help output
    • Alternate proposal: show the help when the --help/-h flag is passed
  • New: bytes: add Reader methods Buffered, Peek, and Discard
  • Benchmarks:
    • On Hold: testing: add Keep, to force evaluation in benchmarks
    • Accepted: testing: add testing.B.Loop for iteration
• Blog post: Unmasking a Go HTML Parser Bug with Differential Fuzzing by Maciej Mionskowski
  • Related project: radamsa, test case generator for fuzzing
• Discussion: "Real" Go projects that would be considered idiomatic
• pex, a tool to make piping easier
  • On GitHub
  • Demo video
• Podcast: Security Cryptography Whatever
• [Sponsored] Backend Banter is the only podcast dedicated to backend development, technologies, and careers.
• 📦 testcontainers interview with Manuel de la Peña
  • Web site for Testcontainers for Go
  • On GitHub
  • Latest release: v0.26.0
  • Follow Manuel
    • GitHub
    • LinkedIn

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Backend Banter!

• Proposals
  • Accepted: spec: add range over int, range over func
    • Range over int targeted for Go 1.22
    • Range over func targeted for Go 1.22 behind the GOEXPERIMENT=rangefunc flag
  • Accepted: go/version: package for handling Go version strings
  • Accepted: io/fs, net/http: new interface for automatic ETag serving
• Conferences
  • 🧭 GoWest happening TODAY in Lehi, Utah, and online
• Releases
  • golangci-lint v1.55
  • 🛋️ Kivik v4.0
• 📚 Books
  • Learn Go with Pocket Sized Projects (discount code)
    • Jonathan's review
  • GoBooks repository
• [Sponsored] Backend Banter is the only podcast dedicated to backend development, technologies, and careers.
• 🛡️ Interview with Juho Nurminen of Mattermost
  • Social
    • Twitter
    • Mastodon
  • Blog posts
  • cmd/go: go.mod toolchain directive allows arbitrary execution
  • Proposals mentioned
    • os/exec: return ErrDot from LookPath when argument is relative
    • html/template: full support for JS template literals
    • html/template: rewrite JS parser
    • html/template: use x/net/html for parsing
  • Resources
    • PortSwigger
    • HackerOne