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🎂 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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