Go 1.21 development is full steam ahead: io/fs, loopvar, slog API vetting, context merging. And an interview with GoTek

On the news this week:

• 🇧🇷 GopherCon Brasil CFP open (https://gopherconbr.org/) until May 3  • 🇮🇹 GoLab 2023 CFP open closes on May 21  • 💬 io/fs: writeable interface new discussion asking for use cases (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45757#issuecomment-1515073076). If you have a project that uses a writeable abstraction interface, go there! • ✅ GOEXPERIMENT=loopvar is in! Will be included in 1.21 (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57969)  • 🍵 gitea v1.19.1 released with breaking changes (https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/releases/tag/v1.19.1)  • ᚬ log/slog: Add vet checks for variadic inputs discussion in GitHub (https://go.dev/issue/59407) and our Slack (https://gophers.slack.com/archives/C04LYE5ARC0/p1681977459510629) • ⛙ context.Merge is on hold until AfterFunc has been out in the wild for a while (https://github.com/golang/go/issues/36503) to see if the proposal will need to be resurfaced

Interview with Fraser Williams and Callum Williams from Go Tek. If you're looking for a Go job, contact them via LinkedIn!

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