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I'm So Meta, Even The Airing // Talking about Cup o' Go 2.0
Jonathan and Shay talk about the show itself; a bit of context and history, what they like, what they don't like, and how it will change in the future.
The main thing is it's still a short, focused, Go news program! But we discuss ways to improve it and increase its reach.
Shoutout to My First Million's episode: "We hit record on our private strategy session" for the idea.
★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Canada trip, 1.27rc1, `` vs “, and Go in the Gaming industry with Francis J. Nickels III
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🥳 Go 1.27 Release Candidate 1 is released↪️ With Delve released as well“ proposal: cmd/gofmt: don't rewrite into smart quotes💸 OpenAI to acquire OnaLightning round:Gopls: Model Context Protocol supportGlaze now runs 100% on puregoInterview with Francis J. Nickels III ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Go's revolving door, live from ElevateDev
Proposal declined: drop gccgogaal — Keep skills in sync across AI agentsvscode-go 0.54.0 releasedgeneric methods in Go have been implementedNot everybody is happy about itInterview with Louis CeronaGenetec ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Quantum MIME, Eurovision, and lots of MONEY
🤡 Go 1.26.4 and 1.25.11 released🥉 Learning Go, 3rd Edition by Jon Bodner in early release🇩🇪 GopherCon EU, June 15-18 @ Berlin, Germany💰 Reddit: Working with money in Gogithub.com/shopspring/decimalgithub.com/Rhymond/go-moneyMitchell Hashimoto likes Go + Zig for AI◀️ Video: How to Reverse Engineer Go BinariesInterivew with Preslav RachevPersonal site/blog: preslav.meNimTEMPLchigomjmlGenerative Art in Go ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
New rule: Every rule exists to be broken. (except this one?)
GoConf, Sept 11 & Moscow, RussiaCFPProposalsAccepted: Formal GODEBUG removal policyNew: Allow explicit conversion from function to 1-method interfaceBlog: The 10 Go Error Handling Commandments by Preslav RachevLearn Logging & Observability in Go @ boot.dev, use code CUPOGO to save 25%Video: Practical Go Development with AI Agents by Miki TebekaBlog series: Understanding the Go Runtime by Jesús Espino ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
(AI) Some imp(AI)ortant sec(AI)urity fixes (AI). And AI is every(AI)where!
🛡️ Several security releases🖼️ Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/image🔐 Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/crypto🥅 Vulnerabilities in golang.org/x/net📘 Blog: Introducing the pkg.go.dev API by Ethan Lee, Hana Kim, and Jonathan AmsterdamFree webinar: Practical Go Development with AI Agents, May 27 by Ardan LabsProposalsAccepted: json/v2 coming in Go 1.27Episode 34: Interview with Joe Tsai about json/v2Accepted: httptest.NewSynctestServerLightning Roundslk — A blazingly fast Slack TUIAudience question from Miriah: In the age of AI coding, do we care about language-specific conferences?
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Linux vs Windows: Which has the most security vulnerabilities in Go 1.26.2?
GopherCon Agenda is live! Aug 3-6 @ SeattleGo 1.26.3 and 1.25.10 released with 11 security fixesGo + LLM projectsgosymdb: A Go symbol and call-graph database backed by SQLite.cli-bridge: If you want agents to actually use your CLI, this is the missing piece.
OpenAPI 3.1.0 support in kin-openapi, and a CRITical look at agentic coding
kin-openapi v0.136.0 released with support for OpenAPI 3.1.0git 2.54 releasedgo-gitAccepted proposal: modernize for atomic, embedlit, errorsastype, plusbuild, stringscut, stditeratorsATL Builder Night, May 11Interview with Tomasz Tomczykcrit.md / on GitHubBlogXSuperpowerscontext-mode ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Builds, Validation, Web3, CORS, Typescript-- wait this is a Go show?! with Paweł Zaremba
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proposal: cmd/go: add -buildversion build flagValidating data in Go by Phillipp Winter: https://nymity.ch/writing/articles/validation/ETHWarsaw Event Calendar: Meetups, Conference & HackathonUpcoming GoSF meetup: Go Meetup in San Francisco | Hosted by Meterjub0bs/cors: perhaps the best CORS middleware library for Go plus the relevant blogpost: Fearless CORS: a design philosophy for CORS middleware libraries (and a Go implementation)Paweł on X: https://x.com/teghnetAnnouncing TypeScript 7.0 BetaA Nil by any other name
GopherCon Singapore, May 22-26Accepted proposalsuuid: add API to generate and parse UUIDRelated, likely decline: rename Nil to Zerostrings, bytes: add CutLastdeprecate h2c packageBlog: Go 1.26.2-1 and 1.25.9-1 Microsoft builds now availableUpcoming course: Idiomatic Testing in Go ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Go 1.26.2 is a beast. Go upgrade!
📄 GopherCon UK 2026 CFP open through Apr 16Go 1.26.2 and 1.25.9 released with 10 CVE fixes⚡ Lightning Roundlneto — Userspace networking primitivesBlog: A Cryptography Engineer’s Perspective on Quantum Computing Timelines by Filippo ValsordaGo on the ESP32 ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Go is epic at Epic! Chat with Creed Haymond about Go in gaming
Go 1.26.2 and Go 1.25.9 coming Tue, April 7Go Blog: Type Construction and Cycle Detection by Mark FreemanBlog: Developing a 2FA Desktop Client in Go by Alex Pliutau🙉 Blog: Native Chaos Engineering: Testing Resilience with Fault & Latency Injection by Onur Cinar🖨️ gpdf, A pure Go, zero-dependency PDF generation library with a layered architecture and declarative builder API.GitHubWeb site⚡ Lightning Roundgopherlintvalkey-go🎮 Interview with Creed Haymond of Epic GamesCreed on GitHubCreed on LinkedInEpic Online Services ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
🌉 Live from SF w/ Josh Bleecher Snyder: Divide and Slog, Sponsored by Antithesis and Ardan Labs
Sponsored by Antithesis and Ardan Labs!
This episode was recorded live in Antithesis's offices in San Francisco, as part of the GoSF meetups in
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🍯 Proposal Accepted: function type inference should work in all assignment contexts🧵 Blog: Go String Concatenation Performance Optimization: Comparing 15 Methods by Winter Jung⚠️ fallthrough podcast: Deprecate the Error Interface👢 25% off first payment at boot.dev with code CUPOGO ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
go fix your stack allocations in preparation for TypeScript 7
Allocating on the Stack by Keith Randall//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner by Alan DonovanAnnouncing TypeScript 6.0 RC by Daniel Rosenwasser ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
🌷 Spring is in the air! 🌸 Time to cool down! 🧊
Go 1.26.1 and Go 1.25.8 are releasedProposalsAccepted: change go mod init default go directive back to 1.NAccepted: regexp: add iterator forms of matching methodsNew: support dependency cooldown in Go toolingLightning roundGo popular in China?Why Go Can't Try ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Thank you for listening to episode 137. Err... 137-1 = 135? Or is it 136? No, 137. I think. Maybe.
🔐 Go 1.26.1 and Go 1.25.8 pre-announcement🇮🇹 GoLab 2026, Nov 1-3 @ Bologna, ItalyCFP Open through Apr 13➖ Proposal: change go mod init default go directive back to 1.N✔️ Accepted: generic methods for GoWe talked about it in E143📵 Blog: Turn Dependabot Off by Filippo Valsorda⚡️ Lightning Round🤩 Datastar: The Hypermedia Framework🐘 postgresparser -> ANTLR ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
‽ Errata, Go fix բᵢₓ ᶠᶦˣ, & agent skills
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Using go fix to modernize Go codeEric S. Raymond's tweet about auto-converting his C code to GoEric's HomepageSkill-validatorLinkedIn, GitHub, AgentSkillReport.comcmd/vet: check for missing Err calls for bufio.Scanner and sql.Rows #17747Meetups Shay will be at:GoSF Go Israel April MeetupLightning Round:lazygitKoyeb is Joining Mistral AIPaged Out! #8 is out! ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Dancing elephants and upgraded Elves
MeetupsHello Stuttgart, 19 FebGo 1.26 is out!Go 1.26 release party with Anton ZhiyanovGo 1.26.0-1 available from MicrosoftLighting RoundBlog: Stepping out of Front-End with Go by ElGophertransition ppc64/linux (big-endian) from ELFv1 to ELFv2 in Go 1.27Discussion: Should Go accept CLs generated by AI? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Your ID is absolutely unique. Just like everyone else's. — Plus Jakub Ciolek talks fuzzing and bug bounties
Go 1.25.7 and 1.24.13 releasedUUIDs in the standard library?crypto/uuid: add API to generate and parse UUIDscrypto/rand: add UUIDv4 and UUIDv7 generatorsThe most popular Go dependency is...Lightning roundRust vs Go in 2026 by John ArundelWelcome to Gas Town by Steve YeggeInterview with Jakub CiolekOn GitHubHackerOne 'ghosted' me for months over $8,500 bug bounty, says researcher ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Happy 3rd birthday, Brewster! Live from SF 🌁🌉
Sponsored by Quantcast!
This episode was recorded live at San Francisco as part of GoSF.
Go pherJS. 🌐 Go survey. 📈 Go podcast. 🎧
GopherJS 1.20 releasedListen to interview with Grant Nelson, Episode 53Results from the 2025 Go Developer SurveyInterview with Dominic St-Pierrego podcast()StaticBackendDominic on LinkedIn ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
3️⃣3️⃣3️⃣ Security patches for 3 Go versions, 3 meetups, planning our 3 year anniversary!
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Go 1.26: 240% better! 🎊 This episode: 340% longer! 🎉 Venn: 100% awesome 👍
GopherCon 2026 Early tickets until Jan 31! Get them while they last!Go 1.26 coming soonOfficial release notesInteractive release notes by Anton ZhiyanovInterview with Arthur VaverkoVenn.cityJob openingsArthur Vaverko on LinkedIn ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
See you next year
Podcast: Within Reason with Hank GreenPodcast: Within Reason with VsaucePodcast: Acquired: Microsoft Volume IFavorite Cup o' Go episodes of 2025May 17, Episode 110: Thanks, Ian. 🙏 Plus Kevin Hoffman talks about empathy and the joy of logging ⚡May 23, Episode 111: Go gets audited, and Ian Lance Taylor talks about 19 years on the Go teamMay 29, Episode 112: 🌁 Live from San Francisco, it's Cup o' Go! Elastic, Green Tea, and LLM toolboxes ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
🤐 Three goroutines may keep a secret, even if none are dead. Plus, 💉 dependency injection is horrible—change my mind!
Go 1.26rc1 is outBook: Gist of Go: Concurrency by Anton Zhiyanov😶 Blog: Go feature: Secret mode by Anton ZhiyanovNon-Go: Pixnapping🧋 Accepted: Make all "bubbles" inherited across goroutines🌩️ Lightning Round🥐 Bun v2 coming?💉 Interview: Go dependency injection at Uberuber-go/fxLet a 1,000 flowers bloom. Then rip 999 of them out by the roots.Abhinav Gupta on GitHubAkshay ShahA theory of modern Go by Peter Bourgon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
All software sucks... then you die. But first: GopherCon 2026 dates and location announced!
Gin is a very bad software library by Efron LichtBun SQL injection via error messagesModernizing Reddit's Comment Backend Infrastructure by Katie ShannonInterview with Erik St. Martin & Johnny BoursiquotGopherCon ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
🪪 Certificate chains, Dingo, and ML in Go with Riccardo Pinosio and Jan Pfeifer
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🪪 Go 1.25.5 and Go 1.24.11 are released with x509-related security fixes👉 spec: allow type parameter as the RHS in an alias type declaration🐾 DingoLightning roundGoWest VideosHow slow is channel-based iteration?AMA with the GoLand teamInterview with Riccardo Pinosio and Jan PfeiferGoMLX: An Accelerated Machine Learning Framework For GoHugot: ONNX Transformer Pipelines for GoGoMLX and Hugot: Expanding the Horizons of Machine Learning in GoKnight Analytics ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★🎄 An Adventful Sweet 16 for Go! 🎂
golang.org/x/crypto v0.45.0 released🎂 Blog post: Go's Sweet 16macOS 12 losing support in Go 1.27🗒️ Interview with Neil VassNeil's notesLearn Go with TestsChris Do Dev on YouTubeJonathan's joke assert library ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
MIND the gap, the buffer, and the GC; interview with Guy Gofman
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News[security] golang.org/x/crypto fix pre-announcementproposal: spec: remove cycle restriction for type parametersAccepted: Add bytes.Buffer.Peek TIOBE indexRust vs Go: Memory ManagementInterviewWith Guy GofmanMIND's career page: https://mind.io/careersGit CTF: https://www.mrnice.dev/ctf/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★Can Claude Code fix your subtle bugs? 🐞
🐞 Go 1.25.4 and 1.24.10 are releasedThe Geomys Standard of Care🛡️ Claude Code Can Debug Low-level Cryptography🫚 go podcast() episode 64: Podman, the root-less alternative to Docker ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
👻 Spooky integer printing and 🧛🏻 scary fast ring buffers
New proposal: go vet check for using %q with integer typesBlog: I'm Independently Verifying Go's Reproducible Builds by Andrew AyerJetBrains' language promise indexReddit: Why I built a ~39M op/s, zero-allocation ring buffer for file watchingBlog: A modern approach to preventing CSRF in Go ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
Sponsored by Forge, live from San Francisco, it's Cup o' Go!
Thanks to Forge for sponsoring this episode!
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This episode was recorded in front of a live studio audience, during a GoSF meetup.
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Go 1.25.3 and 1.24.9 released🪲 Blog: How we found a bug in Go's arm64 compiler by Thea Heinenzsh support progress for sh🇺🇸 Go meetup & live episode @ San Francisco🌩️ Lightning roundqjs, a CGO-Free, modern, secure JavaScript runtime for Go applications📺 Kaizen, watch anime from the terminal ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
🍪 No more all-you-can-eat Cookies
Security releases🍪 Go 1.25.2 and 1.24.8 with 10 security fixes🌐 golang.org/x/net v0.45.0 with 2 security fixesMeetups @ Conferences🇺🇸 San Fransisco, CA, USA — Oct 23 @ Forge🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Israel — Dec 10 @ Cato Networks🇺🇸 GoWest @ Lehi, Utah USA — Oct 24🧦 New swag in the Cup o' Go store!Proposals👷🏿♀️ Accepted: go fix to apply fixes from modernizers and gofix analyzersOn hold: Add experimental HTTP/3 support👖 gofumpt: Should clothing naked returns be put behind `-extra`? ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
🪿 Goose noose? 🤘 Excellent! 🎸
Conference videos🇬🇧 GopherCon UKFyneConfProposals💧 Accepted: add new goroutine leak profile as a GOEXPERIMENTFull discussion of this feature in Episode 127🪿 Added to minutes: add GOOS=noos bare metal support🫣 Added to minutes: Add bytes.Buffer.Peek👍 Added to minutes: Add must.DoBlog posts✈️ Go blog: Flight Recorder in Go 1.25 by Carlos Amedee and Michael Knyszek🫖 We tried Go's experimental Green Tea garbage collector and it didn't help performance by Zach Musgravedo v2.0.0 released, dependency injection toolkit for Go🌩️ Lightning RoundWatermill 1.5 ReleasedSweet Fyne appssupersonicBounce presentationmodgen, static generator for Go module vanity URLs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
💧 A leaky goroutine certainly does suck!
Meetups and Conferences🇺🇸 Go Meetup in San Francisco, Oct 23 @ Forge🇺🇸 GoWest, Oct 24 @ Lehi, Utah USA🇳🇬 GopherCon Africa, Oct 24 & 25 @ Lagos, Nigeria🇷🇺 LetsGoConf followup post on TelegramProposals⚠️ Accepted: errors.AsType (As with type parameters)💧 runtime/pprof,runtime: new goroutine leak profileNew: direct reference to embedded fields in struct literals🌩️ Lighting Roundgolangci-lint v2.5.0 releasedBlog: Building Conway's Game of Life in Go with raylib-go by Tim LittleBlog: vacuum gets a facelift by quobix ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
🪖 Gab's Notes on this week's Go news and an interview with Matt Boyle of Ona and ByteSizeGo
Thanks Gabriel Augendre for guest co-hosting this episode!
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🔬 A new experimental Go API for JSON🧾 2025 Go Developer Survey🥸 Test state, not interactions by Redowan😴 Go team quiet week Sep 22–Sep 26⛓️💥 The Day the Linter Broke My CodeInterview with Matt Boyle
Find Matt on XOnaByteSizeGoFunctional options for friendly APIs ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★👕 Clothe your naked gophers and returns, with this one weird episode THEY don't want you to know about!
Go 1.25.1 and Go 1.24.7 are released🇩🇪 GopherCon Europe: Berlin 2025 videos online⏱️ Blog: Testing Time (and other asynchronicities) by Damien NeilVideo: Testing Time (and other asynchronous code)👖 gofumpt v0.9.0 releasedVideo: Go's Naked Returns: Be afraid!🗳️ Blog: Building Bulletproof Leader Election in Kubernetes Operators: A Deep Dive by Ishai ShorProposalsAccepted: deprecate x/net/context package👈 Likely accept: spec: expression to create pointer to simple typesJonathan is available for fractional Gopher work!Lightning Roundgithub.com/jackc/pgx/v5 v5.7.6 released👕 Gopher themed Hawaiian shirt designsNew "official" fork of Go YAML library ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★
🇲🇽 Café con Go, 🇨🇦 GopherCon, eh?, or 🌉 Goroutines on the Golden Gate?
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GopherCon 2026 location pollGopherCon IndiaGOMAXPROCSCourse: "Introducing Command Line Applications in Go"SQLite benchmarks ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★