Cup o' Go | 🎂 Happy birthday, Go! 🎂

🎂 Happy birthday, Go! 🎂

November 10, 2023 / 15:17/E39

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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 and Guests

Jonathan Hall

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

Mihai Todor

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

Filippo Valvassori Bolgè

Sound Designer / Audio Editor based in Milan

🎂 Happy birthday, Go! 🎂