Cup o' Go Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad

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 GoRich 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 OutCFP 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

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Conferences & CFPs
🇧🇪 FOSDEM '24, Feb 3&4 @ BrusselsGo Devroom CFP through December 1

🇬🇷 GopherCon EU, Athens, Feb 6-8CFP Through November 19



🇧🇷 Ultimate Go Tour from Arden labs now available in PortugueseThe original: A Tour of Go


Proposals
❄️ Accepted: cmd/go: add support for dealing with flaky tests

Accepted: x/tools/txtar: implement fs.FSCheck 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




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Interview with Lucio Moraes
The Ultimate Go Tour
GitHub repo
On LinkedIn

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🎂 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 v1.23.0Related: 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 GCRequest an invitation to the Rands leadership slack

Go Case Studies



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🛡️ Security pre-release announcementGo 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.HandleBlog post: netaddr.IP: a new IP address type for Go by Brad Fitzpatrick

ℹ️ New: Standardize -help outputAlternate 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 MionskowskiRelated 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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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
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