🎂 Happy birthday, Go! 🎂

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• 🎂 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
  • sarama 1.42.0
• AWS SDK for Go Aligns with Go Release Policy on Supported Runtimes (Bye-bye Go 1.5 support)
• Around the community
  • Reddit: What Go-related content creators do you follow?
  • Awesome Go
  • On Rands Slack: discussion about Close() vs GC
    • Request an invitation to the Rands leadership slack
  • Go Case Studies
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Creators & Guests

Host

Jonathan Hall

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

Host

Mihai Todor

Freelance Software Engineer, https://benthos.dev contributor, and aspiring computational biologist

Editor

Filippo Valvassori Bolgè

Sound Designer / Audio Editor based in Milan

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