
Cup o' Go
Stay up to date with the Go community in about 15 minutes per week
Latest episodes

Aug 3, 2024 • 26min
🎮 BDFL but drop the FL, Game Development, and more!
For Patreon, Swag, past episodes, and more, visit https://cupogo.dev/!🫡 Leadership Transition in the Go Project🧑⚖️ ProposalsAccepted: Adding Text() to the crypto/rand libraryProposal (likely decline): add crypt(3) compatibility in the stdlibActive Proposal: Telemetry in Delve🤝 CommunityGopherCon EU 2024 videos have been uploaded online 🎮 GameDevNew minor version for ebitengineGo for RPG tutorial on YouTube by CodingWithSphere🏎️ Lightning round💰 Go & Money🔐 Quantum-Safe TLS🐑 New ollama release
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Jul 26, 2024 • 1h 2min
Don't skip the gym! 🏋️ And interview Alice Merrick, UX researcher on the Go team
📝 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
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Jul 19, 2024 • 27min
🇰🇪 yield(RC2, 1st GopherCon in Africa, LLMs, Dreams of code, and more)
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
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Jul 12, 2024 • 21min
⏲️ ⚡️ That feeling when your timer returns the wrong time & new 🌩️ lightning round!
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.
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Jul 5, 2024 • 25min
The Go release that was completely Expected, conferences, and cookies! 🍪🍪🍪
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
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Jun 28, 2024 • 29min
🎹 As simple as Do, Re, Mi, Go 1.23 (rc1), baby, you and me!
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
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Jun 21, 2024 • 20min
Cup o' Go Live from Amsterdam!
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
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Jun 14, 2024 • 32min
🎮 Gaby, help me learn 5 tips about Game Development in Go and goreleaser them
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
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Jun 7, 2024 • 1h 18min
“I don't have money, but I do have a very particular set of ~skills~ connectors” — Ashley Jeffs
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
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May 31, 2024 • 1h 2min
Go, meet hugging face 🤗, interview with Riccardo Pinosio
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
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