What's New In Go 1.24?

Go's steady cycle of releasing new versions every six months continues. On this episode, our "What's new in Go?" correspondent (a carry over from Go Time) joins special guest host Johnny Boursiquot to talk about the new features and changes coming in Go 1.24. As always, we've got some great unpopular opinions at the end.

Thanks for tuning in and happy listening!

Notes & Links:

• Carlana's Website
• Time Is Not A Synchronization Primitive (from 19:04)
• sqlc (from 1:05:01)

Chapters:

• (00:00) - Intro
• (02:20) - Introducing Carlana
• (03:29) - What's New In Go 1.24?
• (04:02) - package weak
• (10:17) - package runtime
• (16:55) - testing
• (27:37) - package os
• (32:28) - go tool
• (37:58) - generic type aliases
• (41:35) - minor changes
• (52:25) - Unpopular Opinions
• (52:35) - Carlana's Unpop
• (56:36) - Johnny's Unpop
• (01:05:43) - Outro

Socials:

• Website
• Bluesky
• Threads
• X/Twitter
• LinkedIn
• Instagram

Creators & Guests

Host

Johnny Boursiquot

Johnny Boursiquot is a multi-disciplined software engineer with a love for teaching and community-building. He is the founder and organizer of the Baltimore Go User Group and has served as an organizer of both the Boston Ruby User Group and the Boston Go User Group. He stays busy as a speaker, trainer, podcast host, conference program chair, and advocate within the Go community. His live and recorded trainings are available on various platforms, including O'Reilly, LinkedIn Learning, and Packt.

Guest

Carlana Johnson

Carlana is a philosopher and programmer, currently employed as the Director of Technology for Spotlight PA. Prior to working at Spotlight PA, Carlana worked at The Baltimore Sun, Ad Hoc LLC, PBS, and The Atlantic. She has been enabling web publishing since the Nineties.

Producer

Kris Brandow

What is Fallthrough?

A deep and nuanced conversational podcast focused on technology, software, and computing.