May 24, 2024

🕸️ With great power comes great responsibility, or why not to use the linkname directive 🔗

18 minutes

Proposals
- Accepted: require Linux 3.17 kernel for Go 1.24
  - Previous discussion: Episode 61
- Accepted: add encoding.AppendText and encoding.AppendBinary
  - Previous discussion: Episode 62
- Accepted: add HostLayout directive type
- 🪟 Accepted: Normalize line endings in example output comparisons
Conference updates
- 🇮🇱 GopherCon Isreael CFP open until June 30
🔒 gosec v2.20.0 released
- Included in golangci-lint v1.58.2
- See also: govulncheck
Open issue: lock down future uses of linkname
- Related blog post: Accessing Private Functions, Methods, Types and Variables in Go by Yarden Laifenfeld
Thanks to Miki for filling in!
- His new book, Effective Go Recipes

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By Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad

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May 24, 2024

18 minutes

Proposals
- Accepted: require Linux 3.17 kernel for Go 1.24
  - Previous discussion: Episode 61
- Accepted: add encoding.AppendText and encoding.AppendBinary
  - Previous discussion: Episode 62
- Accepted: add HostLayout directive type
- 🪟 Accepted: Normalize line endings in example output comparisons
Conference updates
- 🇮🇱 GopherCon Isreael CFP open until June 30
🔒 gosec v2.20.0 released
- Included in golangci-lint v1.58.2
- See also: govulncheck
Open issue: lock down future uses of linkname
- Related blog post: Accessing Private Functions, Methods, Types and Variables in Go by Yarden Laifenfeld
Thanks to Miki for filling in!
- His new book, Effective Go Recipes