News this week: 🆕 rc2 is out Google Groups notice The actual Merge List 🇰🇪 GopherCon Africa Oct 18-19 Does Go benefit more from copilot than other languages? Range-over-func demystified Zach Musgrave's post from dolthub; Go range iterators demystified John's take on it; First impressions of Go 1.23's range-over-func feature ⚡️ Lightning round "This…

Conferences & CFPs 🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel, Sept 9 @ Tel Aviv CFP open until Jul 15 🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, No CFP open until Sept 15 🇮🇳 GopherCon India, Dec 1 @ Jaipur 🇩🇪 Fyne Conf, Sept 20 @ Berlin CFP open until Aug 16 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore, October TBD CFP open until Aug 19 Go 1.23 draft release notes ⏲️ Blog: Resetting timers in Go by Anton Zhiyanov 🌩️ …

Go 1.22.5 & 1.21.12 released Conferences 🇮🇱 GopherCon Israel, Sept 9 @ Tel Aviv CFP open until Jul 15 🇦🇺 GopherCon AU, No CFP open until Sept 15 🇮🇳 GopherCon India, Dec 1 @ Jaipur New proposal: include abandoned packages in list of deprecations Blog post: gRPC: The Good Parts by Kevin McDonald 🍪 New package: github.com/syntaqx/cookie Found on Reddi…

Visit our homepage - cupogo.dev - for links to our Patreon, Store, past episodes, and more. 🚢 Releases 1.23 RC1 released 1.22.5 & 1.21.12 pre-release announcement Proposals 1️⃣ 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 iterat…

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 TestsBy Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad

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 17-20 Can’t afford to attend online? Fill in this form: https://forms.gle/gcDGxnRJvjXbVPuZ6 🎲 math/rand: make global seed a no-o…

Go 1.22.4 & 1.21.11 released Proposals New: safer file open functions github.com/google/safeopen alternative openat man page New: allow range-over-func to omit iteration variables Blog: Flaky Tests Overhaul at Uber Blog: Redpanda acquires Benthos to expand its end-to-end streaming data platform Interview with Ashley Jeffs Twitter LinkedIn GitHub An…

Go 1.22.4 & 1.21.11 coming Tuesday, June 4 Community events Golang Atlanta meetup, June 13 Cup o' Go Meetup in Amsterdam, June 19 Golang Tilburg meetup, June 20 Proposal accepted and implemented: new iterator functions in maps package coming in 1.23 Reddit: What software shouldn't you write in Go? Blog: Blazingly Fast Shadow Stacks for Go by Felix …

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 …

Upcoming conferences 🇯🇵 June 8: Go Conference 2024 @ Tokyo, Japan 🇩🇪 June 17-20: GopherCon EU @ Berlin, Germany 🇳🇱 June 19-21: DevOps Days @ Amsterdam, Netherlands 🇷🇺 June 24-25: Golang Conf 2024 @ St. Petersburg, Russia Proposals 👍 Accepted: go telemetry subcommand Previous discussion on Episode 62 ⛔ Declined: Notify of new major dependency versio…

Go 1.22.3 & 1.22.10 released Proposals Accepted: add binary.Append function Likely accept: new `go telemetry` subcommand Likely decline: Notify about new major versions of dependencies Packt book bundle Interview with Jamie Tanna Blog: Creating a more sustainable model for `oapi-codegen` in the future Blog: oapi-codegen is moving to its own org on …

Consider supporting the show by joining our Patreon! 🆕 Releases Go 1.22.3 & 1.21.10 coming Tuesday 🪇 Conferences GopherCon Brazil, May 9 & 10 GopherDay Taiwan, May 25 🤹 Secure Randomness Blog: Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2 Blog: Secure Randomness in Go 1.22 by Russ Cox new proposal: Require Linux kernel 3.17 for Go 1.24 🧑‍🔬 Int…

Proposals 🍪 Accepted: support partitioned cookies Article: Prepare for thrid-party cookie restrictions New: add reflect.AssertTo Declined: builtin is[T any](any) bool Meetups & Conferences 🇨🇿 Prague Go Meetup, April 23 🇳🇱 Rotterdam Go Meetup, April 23 🌐 Conf42 Golang, April 25, Online 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK CFP closes May 17 🇮🇹 GoLab CFP closes May 6 Blog…

For more info, transcripts, and all the links, visit https://cupogo.dev. 🗳️ 2024 Go Developer Survey Hugot, Huggingface pipelines for Go Why is NPS bad? A blogpost by Jonathan 🍕 Meetups 🇺🇸 Denver 🇺🇸 Atlanta 🇳🇱 Amsterdam 🇮🇱 Israel 🧙 An interview with Bill Kennedy Twitter https://twitter.com/goinggodotnet LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/william-…

Go 1.22.2 & 1.21.9 released Blog: HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood by Bartek Nowotarski Blog: HTTP/2 CONTINUATION Flood: Technical Details by Bartek Nowotarski 🗣️ Conferences & CFPs Official Go "Wiki" conferences list 🏴 Go West, October TBD @ Lehi, Utah CFP 🌐 Conf42 Golang, April 24 @ Online 🇧🇷 GopherCon Brazil, May 9-10 @ Florianópolis, SC Around the com…

Proposals (re)accepted: add slices.Repeat function accepted: report use of too-new standard library symbols with go vet From around the community Blog: Context-induced performance bottleneck in Go by Gabriel Augendre New community Q&A site: godev.com, powerd by Apache Answer Blog: Go Enums Still Suck by Steven McCutcheon On Reddit…

Links: my little whisper.cpp bug fix why the logits were calculated inconsistently wav2vec2 on arxiv and huggingface the openai whisper asr model announcement beam search patience top notch guide to CTC the bitter lesson (and in meme form) And one erratum: I referred in the show to LLMs as encoder-decoder models. Most modern LLMs are decoder-only.…

🇮🇹 GoLab 2024 coming up Nov 11-13 in Florence Itally CFP open through May 1 Proposals 🚫 Declined: time.Parse: letter-based formats 🚫 Declined: support int(bool) conversions 🗨️ Active: add builtin function is[T any](any) bool 🚫 Declined: range over nil function should panic Work with Jonathan Hall Interview with xiaq 🧝 Elvish web site zsh user manua…

🇬🇧 Manchester Go Meetup, April 3 Proposals 🕛 Declined: time: add "1136214245" as layout string for unix timestamp 💪 Active: promote windows/arm64 to first class port Go Blog: More powerful Go execution traces Design document: Execution tracer overhaul Neovim plugin for gopls documentation links On Reddit 👸 Interview with quobix Personal site Prince…

🛡️ Security releases. Upgrade now! Go 1.22.1 & 1.21.8 google.golang.org/protobuf v1.33.0 👭 Happy International Women's Day! Upcoming meetups & events 🇬🇧 London Gophers, March 20 🇮🇱 Go Israel, March 12 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK Conference, August 14-16 CFP is open! Accepted proposals: Migrate x/crypto packages into the standard library Around the community Go…

🛡️ Security updates coming on Tuesday Go 1.22.1 & 1.21.8 google.golang.org/protobuf and github.com/google/protobuf 🧀 Open proposal: use SwissTable to improve hash map performance Related releases GopherJS 1.19 beta1 with Go 1.19 support (w/o generics) TinyGo 0.31.0 with Go 1.22 support Around the community Upcoming Go Isreal Meetup, March 12 @ Orca…

Meet the hosts Meet Shay: 🇮🇱 Go Israel Meetup, March 12 @ Orca Meet Jonathan: 🇳🇱 Go Amsterdam Meetup, Feb 27 @ Creative Fabrica Proposals Declined: 🤐 archive/zip: support for encrypted archives Accepted: 🔁 iter: new package for iterators Accepted: 🗺️ maps: add iterator-related functions Likely accept: 🍕 slices: add iterator-related functions Likely…

Proposals: new: add slices.Repeat function accepted: deprecate runtime.GOROOT From the Go blog: Routing Enhancements for Go 1.22 How I write HTTP services in Go after 13 years by Mat Ryer Weaveworks shutting down On Reddit: Go 1.22 yielding a 18% regression in single-threading performance On YouTube: Why I Use Golang in 2024 by ThePrimeTime Intervi…

In which I ramble about randomness and random algorithms. Now with theme music! Paper Cuts planned reading: Habitability and Piecemeal Growth, in Patterns of Software (just pages 7–16 of the book, which is pages 25-32 of the PDF) Selected links: * SIEVE cache replacement algorithm * Power of two random choices * Marc Brooker's blog * Random forests…

New releases ♬ Go 1.21.7 and 1.20.14 released 🧹 golangci-lint 1.56.1 released, including support for `--show-stats` and John's bugfix Conferences and Meetups 🇮🇱 Go Israel March 2024 hosted by Orca Security Go 1.22 Feature Rundown Official announcement, release notes, and download link Cool interactive release notes by Anton Zhiyanov The Loopvar bug…

Shay Nehmad on how writing is the key to becoming a better engineer, how to do it, and more. Links: * Cup O' Go podcast * Code Complete book * Shay's blog * Obsidian and LogseqBy Josh Bleecher Snyder

Happy 1st anniversary to Cup o' Go! 🥳 Proposals go build -json accepted allow append(nil, arg) declined (playground link), because of existing alternative go vet: warn about recover in non-deferred function declined, because of lack of data allow multiple spaces between method and path in mux: new proposal Releases gofumpt 0.6.0 go-elasticsearch v8…

Preview for the Cup o' Go podcast - keep up to date with the Go (golang) community in 15 minutes per week, with Jonathan Hall and Shay Nehmad!By Jonathan Hall & Shay Nehmad

This show is supported by you! Consider joining as a Patreon member to support the show. Go 1.22RC2 released Take the new Go developer survey Learning Go, 2nd edition now available for e-purchase, print coming soon Listen to our interview with the author in Episode 44 GopherCon talk by Russ Cox: Go Changes Highlighting tools goimportcycle typex Red…

This was a fun and decidedly humbling conversation with Ben Johnson about SQLite, databases, Litestream, and LiteFS. Links: Ben on GitHub Litestream LiteFSBy Josh Bleecher Snyder

This show is supported by you! Consider joining as a Patreon member to support the show. Thanks Yarden for coming on the show! Proposals Declined: ASCII output in Go tools, PowerShell investigation underway Likely Accept: `-json` flag for go build The new Range syntax Go Wiki: Rangefunc Experiment Range over int, over func proposal Go 1.22 range fu…

You can now sponsor the show directly, via Patreon! 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 gene…

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 zombi…

No guest for this inaugural episode--just me this round. I cover the basics of rolling hashes and FastCDC, which appears to be the state of the art in content defined chunking. Mentioned in the episode: 8 bit hash bug FastCDC paper Perkeep (once called Camlistore, oops) bup rsync I know the audio is slightly subpar (to say nothing of the content). …

🐚 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-c…

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 In…

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 abou…

The plan: Guests teach me substantive topics in software engineering, and I ask dumb questions. Please send guest suggestions, topic ideas, excitement, and monopoly money to josh@sigpod.devBy Josh Bleecher Snyder

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-spe…

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…

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 sa…

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 Propo…

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 serv…

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+ break…

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb! Go 1.21.3 and 1.20.10 released Proposals Retracted: untyped builtin zero Accepted: Move wiki to x/website Related discussion (closed for now): Should the Go project stop importing GitHub PRs? Ongoing discussion: encoding/json/v2 Checkout last week's episode for related interview with Joe Tsai Viper v1.17 rel…

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb! Go 1.21.2 & 1.20.9 released. Upgrade yesterday! 💻 Hacktoberfest is happening now How to participate Go projects participating Proposals 🔀 Accepted: testing: shuffle seed should be different when -shuffle=on and -count flag is set Previously discussed in episode 32 🧮 Accepted: math/rand/v2: revised API for ma…

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb! Go 1.21.2 & 1.20.9 to release Oct 5 Conferences 🇺🇸 Go West Conference, Lehi, Utah, USA & Online, October 27 🌐 Go-perf Meetup, CFP closes Oct 7, event early November Proposals & Bug Reports ☕ Active: Add intern package 🏎️ Closed: cmd/go: 1.21 regression in test times with -race Blog posts ⚒️ Forward Compatibi…

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb! 🇺🇸 GopherCon, San Diego, CA, USA, September 25-28 OpenTofu (formerly OpenTF) officially joins the Linux Foundation Blog post: OpenTF is NOT the fork 🔀 Proposal: testing: shuffle seed should be different when -shuffle=on and -count flag is set Blog posts ➿ Go blog: Fixing For Loops in Go 1.22 Go blog: Backwar…

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb! So many conferences! 🇺🇸 GopherCon, San Diego, CA, USA, September 25-28 🎟️ Tickets still available 🏨 Hotel discount extended to Monday, September 18 🇮🇪 GopherCon Ireland, Dublin, November 2 🏴 Fyne Conf, Edinburgh, November 3 CFP open until October 6 🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore, November 2-3 🇦🇺 GopherConAU, Sydney,…

Thank you to this week's sponsor, Koyeb! 🆕 Go 1.21.1 & 1.20.8 released ⚒️ Related: Tool dependencies proposal has been accepted, and here's the design document link. We got you covered ;) 🎫 Conference updates 🇮🇳 GopherCon India TOMORROW - shoutout Rishi Chandwani for bringing it to our attention 🇬🇧 Fyne Conf Nov 3rd in the UK, CFP open until Oct 6 …