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🎉 A new year, and a 🎉 new pure-go SQLite library, with Ross Light Jan 05, 2024

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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
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

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🗓️ Go 1.22RC1 next week; 📈 show analytics year in review, and chat with Jon Bodner, 📕 author of Learning Go, 2nd Ed. Dec 15, 2023

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🐚 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

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Go developer survey says, everybody uses Linux! And discussion on data engineering in Go Dec 08, 2023

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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

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🐳💐 DON'T PANIC! We have a bunch of good blogs for you, plus Sam Lown talks invoicing with Go Dec 01, 2023

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Announcements
- 🔐 Go 1.21.5 & 1.20.12 pre-announcement
- 🧊 Go 1.22 frozen, this time for real
Community
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

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🐍 Shay has had it with these flippin' snakes on this flippin' show! + Canopy interview with Webb Morris Nov 24, 2023

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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
From around the community
- NilAway: Practical Nil Panic Detection for Go
- 🤖 Go-specific ChatGPT bots
- 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

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🦃 Giving thanks for the Go Rorschach test, and chat with Ultimate Go Tour translator, Lucio Moraes Nov 17, 2023

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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
[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

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🎂 Happy birthday, Go! 🎂 Nov 10, 2023

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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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❄️ Be unique, just like everyone else & interview with 📦 testcontainers maintainer Manuel de la Peña Nov 03, 2023

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

🛡️ 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
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📦 testcontainers interview with Manuel de la Peña
- Web site for Testcontainers for Go
- On GitHub
- Latest release: v0.26.0
- Follow Manuel
  - GitHub
  - LinkedIn

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🏠 Home on the Range over ints and funcs & 🛡️ Go security with Juho Nurminen Oct 27, 2023

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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
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🛡️ Interview with Juho Nurminen of Mattermost

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🗠 gopls 0.14 with opt-in telemetry is coming! And Eliav Lavi talks about some challenges with JSON Oct 20, 2023

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Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb!

gopls v0.14.0-pre4 released
- Previous discussion about opt-in telemetry in episode 12
GopherCon Brazil
- Conference: May 9, 2024 in Florianópolis, SC
- CFP open until December 15, 2023
"Forward compatibility" pains
- Go modules initialised by go1.21.1 cannot be built using go1.20.8
- Using go mod tidy on v1.21+ breaks usage of older Go mod
Third-party compression library: github.com/klauspost/compress
New book: gRPC Microservices in Go by Hüseyin Babal
Go Blog: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Type Inference — And a Little Bit More by Robert Griesemer
Fyne community contributions
- fyne-streamer: Audio/Video Widget
- DiagramWidget
- And don't forget about Fyne Conf coming November 3 in Edinburgh
[Sponsored] Get $50 in free Koyeb credit by filling out a 2-second form, with code cupogo: https://form.typeform.com/to/HcwWKsAz
Eliav Lavi
- lunar.dev
- Twitter: @eliavlavi

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