Cgo Unchained

All right, let us get into the first round of proposals, which are proposals that we think you should keep an eye on.

The first one is proposal number 7547, so that's 75047, and this is a proposal we went over, I think, like, last episode or maybe the episode before, about adding goroutine labels to tests, where the reason we're covering it again is because it has moved into the w- into likely accept, and it's in the final comment period.

And the spec- or the proposal's been narrowed down to adding two new values, one called test.name and one called test.iter, and that will give you the information about what goroutine or what test spawned that given goroutine.

The next proposal is proposal 74424, so that's 74424, and this is a proposal to add a, or to refactor the signers API for the CryptoX Crypto SSH package.

So this is just to, uh, clean up the old API, give some things like, you know, having context, making it context aware, cleaner algorithm control, things like that.

This one has also moved into the final comment period, and it is in likely accept.

Uh, the next one is proposal number 79789.

Wow, I said that weird.

So that's 79789, and this is a proposal to add, uh, VCS derived versions for the main module to the go.list-m output.

So right now, if you want to get the version that would be stamped into a binary built using the Go toolchain before you've actually built it, uh, you can't do that, right? You just have to do a go build, and then you can use go list or whatever it is, um, to actually inspect the, uh, version, to pull the version out of that binary.

So if you're doing, like, a VCS and you want to be able to, like, get the version that would be built, you can't do that now.

So this is adding basically the same logic that's used to, um, pull out, to stamp the version into the main module, uh, the main binary.

It's using that to just give you the output in go list.

And the proposal is for it to be, be behind a flag, a -buildvcs flag, so it's not the expensive Git querying thing that would happen every time you run go list, just when you have this extra flag.

I think this is pretty cool.

I'm sure we're gonna talk about that when we do in the quick review.

But the last one...

Oh, actually, I think we have a bonus one here.

I'm, like, counting.

I think we might have five instead of four.

Ooh.

Whoops.

Ooh, how exciting.

Okay, but the next one is proposal number 73110, so that's 73110.

And this is a proposal to expose new GCM with counter nonce in the crypto/cipher package.