Cup o' Go

📝 Go 1.23: Interactive release notesNew proposalsruntime: add AddCleanup and deprecate SetFinalizer👉 weak: new package providing weak pointers💪 Bufstream enters public betaLightning RoundProfiling in Go: A Practical Guide by Noam YadgarCogent Core initial releaseNew RansomHub Ransomware VersionInterview with Alice MerrickPrevious episode 59: All about community

News this week:🆕 rc2 is out Google Groups noticeThe actual Merge List🇰🇪 GopherCon Africa Oct 18-19Does Go benefit more from copilot than other languages?Range-over-func demystifiedZach Musgrave's post from dolthub; Go range iterators demystifiedJohn'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 YouTubeIntroducing Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library for Go by Spike Curtisov - feature rich terminal pager release v0.35.0Want to support the show? Here are some ways to do it!Twitter (X. Ugh) techhub.social/@cupogoYouTubePatreon

Conferences & CFPs🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel, Sept 9 @ Tel AvivCFP open until Jul 15🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, NoCFP open until Sept 15🇮🇳 GopherCon India, Dec 1 @ Jaipur🇩🇪 Fyne Conf, Sept 20 @ BerlinCFP open until Aug 16🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore, October TBDCFP open until Aug 19Go 1.23 draft release notes⏲️ Blog: Resetting timers in Go by Anton Zhiyanov🌩️ Lightning RoundGeomys, A Blueprint for a Sustainable Open Source Maintenance Firm by Filippo Valsordagithub.com/openhue/openhue-go — A library for interacting with the Philips Hue smart lighting systems.github.com/frederikaverpil/neotest-golang — Reliable Neotest adapter for running Go tests in Neovim.github.com/AllenDang/giu — A rapid cross-platform GUI framework for Go.github.com/ergochat/ergo — A modern IRC server written in Go.

Go 1.22.5 & 1.21.12 releasedConferences🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel, Sept 9 @ Tel AvivCFP open until Jul 15🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, NoCFP open until Sept 15🇮🇳 GopherCon India, Dec 1 @ JaipurNew proposal: include abandoned packages in list of deprecationsBlog post: gRPC: The Good Parts by Kevin McDonald🍪 New package: github.com/syntaqx/cookieFound on Reddit: How Go allowed us to send 500 million HTTP requests to 2.5 million hosts every day

Visit our homepage - cupogo.dev - for links to our Patreon, Store, past episodes, and more.🚢 Releases1.23 RC1 released1.22.5 & 1.21.12 pre-release announcementProposals1️⃣ Accepted: cmd/gofmt: change -d to exit 1 if diffs exist🆕 Accepted: list deprecations and newer available dep versions 🪢 Accepted: spec: allow range-over-func to omit iteration variables Community⛈️ gRPC: The Bad Parts

Thanks, Erik Dubbelboer, John Basila, Suchith, and Hiji, for co-hosting the episode!Which GUI library to choose?Caesar, a new Go Web Framework"How to prove I am good at Go apart from having work experience?""Where should I learn Go?"Learn Go with Tests

Visit our homepage - cupogo.dev - for links to our Patreon, Swag Store, and more.Next week, on June 19th, we're doing a physical meetup! Join #amsterdam on the Gopher Slack to join up.🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe next week, June 17-20Can’t afford to attend online? Fill in this form: https://forms.gle/gcDGxnRJvjXbVPuZ6🎲 math/rand: make global seed a no-op📦 goreleaser v2 released📼 A few Go tools for production-level developer applications (Orca meetup Mar 2023)🎮 Why is Go not used for game development?GMTK Game Jam 2024 - Hosted by Game Maker's Toolkit🦾 gabyhelp - a new bot to help automate work in the Go issue tracker🧐 5 small tips I recently learned in Go

Go 1.22.4 & 1.21.11 releasedProposalsNew: safer file open functionsgithub.com/google/safeopen alternativeopenat man pageNew: allow range-over-func to omit iteration variablesBlog: Flaky Tests Overhaul at UberBlog: Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platformInterview with Ashley JeffsTwitterLinkedInGitHubAnnouncement discussion on Hacker NewsRedpanda Connect project pagePrevious Benthos interview in Episode 27Redneck language in RedHat, cerca 1998

Go 1.22.4 & 1.21.11 coming Tuesday, June 4Community eventsGolang Atlanta meetup, June 13Cup o' Go Meetup in Amsterdam, June 19Golang Tilburg meetup, June 20Proposal accepted and implemented: new iterator functions in maps package coming in 1.23Reddit: What software shouldn't you write in Go?Blog: Blazingly Fast Shadow Stacks for Go by Felix GeisendörfBlog: Abusing Go's infrastructure by Pedro VilaçaAd breakEpisode 15, interview with Adelina Simion about her book, Test-Driven Development in GoInterview with Riccardo PinosioHugging Facehugot on GitHubONNXKnights Analytics

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