News this week:

• 🆕 rc2 is out  • Google Groups notice (https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/jW315Nz132s) • The actual Merge List (https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/598375/1//MERGE_LIST#65)

• 🇰🇪 GopherCon Africa Oct 18-19 (https://nairobi.gophers.africa/) • Does Go benefit more from copilot than other languages? (https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1dw8qjs/does_go_benefit_more_from_copilot_than_other/) • Range-over-func demystified • Zach Musgrave’s post from dolthub; Go range iterators demystified (https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2024-07-12-golang-range-iters-demystified/) • John’s take on it; First impressions of Go 1.23’s range-over-func feature

• ⚡️ Lightning round • “This cli component was trickier to build than I thought” by Dreams of Code on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LguOA6HS1es) • Introducing Quartz: A Deterministic Time Testing Library (https://coder.com/blog/introducing-quartz) for Go by Spike Curtis • ov - feature rich terminal pager (https://github.com/noborus/ov) release v0.35.0

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