Go 1.21 development is full steam ahead: io/fs, loopvar, slog API vetting, context merging. And an interview with GoTek

On the news this week:

• 🇧🇷 GopherCon Brasil CFP open until May 3 
• 🇮🇹 GoLab 2023 CFP open closes on May 21 
• 💬 io/fs: writeable interface new discussion asking for use cases. If you have a project that uses a writeable abstraction interface, go there!
• ✅ GOEXPERIMENT=loopvar is in! Will be included in 1.21 
• 🍵 gitea v1.19.1 released with breaking changes 
• ᚬ log/slog: Add vet checks for variadic inputs discussion in GitHub and our Slack
• ⛙ context.Merge is on hold until AfterFunc has been out in the wild for a while to see if the proposal will need to be resurfaced

Interview with Fraser Williams and Callum Williams from Go Tek. If you're looking for a Go job, contact them via LinkedIn!

Creators & Guests

Host

Jonathan Hall

Freelance Gopher, Continuous Delivery consultant, and host of the Boldly Go YouTube channel.

Host

Shay Nehmad

Engineering Enablement Architect @ Orca

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