#584 — January 9, 2026 |
👋 A quick reminder before we get into the first issue of the year — Go Weekly is now sent every Friday (starting today!) as part of a reshuffle for many of our newsletters. |
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The Go 1.26 Interactive Tour — We’re now just a month away from the final release of Go 1.26 and Anton is back with another of his epic roundups of what’s new, featuring a huge array of live examples (powered by codapi.) If it helps you get even more excited, Anton concludes: “Go 1.26 is incredibly big — it’s the largest release I’ve ever seen”. Anton Zhiyanov |
💡 Anton produced a similar interactive tour for Go 1.25 too. |
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The Most Popular Go Dependency Is... — …not too surprising, once you see it. However, the process Thibaut went through to learn that fact is fascinating. Read on to discover the top 10 dependencies and learn how he did it. We’ve resisted the temptation to post a spoiler, just this once, as it’s a neat post. Thibaut Rousseau |
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IN BRIEF:
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Turning a Go Program into a Script with One Magic Line — A cute way to turn a regular Go program into a script you can run using something like Lorentz App |
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Filippo Valsorda |
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📄 Two Concurrency Patterns Which Avoid Goroutine Leaks Nick Ripley 📄 Does Go Actually Implement the IEEE-754 Floating Point Spec? – Spoiler: Yes, but it doesn’t mean your math will be portable. Nick Tobey 📄 Using eBPF to Load-Balance Traffic Across UDP Sockets with Go Vincent Bernat 📄 A Practical Guide to Building a Parser in Go Tomasz Gągor 📄 Go 1.26's Modernized |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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📺 The Top Go Weekly Videos of 2025 |
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In the final issue of 2025, we reflected on the top ten articles of the year, based on reader engagement, but as I was looking at the videos, I noticed just how many gems there were there too. Note: These are all links to YouTube videos, though the final two items have written alternatives. |
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1. Developing a Terminal App in Go with Bubble Tea — A well produced 50-minute screencast walking through the creation of a practical note-taking command line tool using Go and Charm’s Bubble Tea and Lip Gloss for structure, views, and styling. Package Main |
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2. The Creator of Ghostty on Zig Over Go — We only included this controversial video as a mini item, but it was still very popular! Mitchell Hashimoto (of HashiCorp fame) has spent the last couple of years building Ghostty, a fast new terminal emulator, in Zig. But why not Go? ThePrimeTime |
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3. Reverse Engineering Doesn't Have to Be Hard — An introductory look at reverse engineering a piece of Go-powered malware. It’s not aimed at Go developers and no Go coding is involved, but if you haven’t done any reverse engineering before, you’ll pick up some techniques. John Hammond |
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4. Advancing Go Garbage Collection with Green Tea — Michael of the Go team deftly explains how Go’s garbage collection works and how the new so-called ‘green tea’ approach will make things better by default in the imminent Go 1.26 (and already available as an option in Go 1.25). Michael Knyszek |
💡 The Go team also published a blog post about Green Tea back in October, if you'd rather read about it. |
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5. What is Phuong Le |