Cup o' Go | ➿ Jonathan and Josh iterate through the Go 1.24 changes and related proposals

➿ Jonathan and Josh iterate through the Go 1.24 changes and related proposals

December 20, 2024 / 22:20/E92

Go 1.24rc1 is out. Start testing it!
golang.org/x/net v0.33.0 released with security patches for golang.org/x/net/html
🇸🇬 GopherCon Singapore coming up, Jan 22-24
1.24 in preview
- 🧶 New iterator functions added to the bytes and strings packages
- 🗺️ sync.Map has a new, faster implementation
- The testing package's T and F types now expose a Context() method
Proposals
- ➿ x/exp/xiter: new package with iterator adapters
- 🗂️ os: add iterator variant of File.ReadDir
Lightning round
- 🌈 Bifröst is an advanced SSH server, written in Go
- github.com/gliderlabs/ssh wraps the crypto/ssh package with a higher-level API for building SSH servers
- 👩‍🍳 Go Recipes
- pi.dev, generate podcasts for the repos you love
- sketch.dev, Go playground alternative