Numerous readers reported last week's Go newsletter as being censored by Gmail, so we're resending a slightly tweaked version of it to you today as we believe you were affected. Apologies if you've received this twice, however.

This week's normal Go newsletter will go out tomorrow (Thursday) as usual and hopefully make it through Gmail's systems :-)

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Go Turns 7 Years Old   news  As Go turned 7 last Thursday, core team member Russ Cox reflects on Go’s maturity. Russ Cox What's Coming in Go 1.8   news  A quick writeup of some of the features coming to Go 1.8, due for final release in early 2017. Tyler Christensen Aliases Pushed Back to Go 1.9 After Issues Discovered   news  After prototyping the idea of alias declarations in Go, 2 major issues have been discovered that have resulted in the idea being pushed back to Go 1.9. Russ Cox Go Beyond Stacktraces. Understand the 'Why' Behind Application Errors. Free to Try. Capture the complete state of your Go applications at the time of error. See all goroutines and variables. Inspect what's waiting in your channels. Gain deep insight into your application and take control of your errors. backtrace.​io   sponsored  q: Quick Debugging Output from Go Code   code  Use this instead of Printf and your variables will be printed in a way that’s more useful in debugging scenarios. Ryan Boehning goja: An ECMAScript 5.1 Implementation Written in Go   code  Boasts full ES5.1 support, that it passes nearly all TC39 tests tagged ES5, and that it’s 6-7x faster than Otto, the Go JavaScript interpreter. github.​com Aurora: ANSI Colors for Go, Supports Printf/Sprintf   code  Makes it easy to print text and use ANSI colors on the terminal. Konstantin Ivanov Introducing Stow: Cloud Storage Abstraction Package for Go   tools  An open-source abstraction on top of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Store, Google Cloud Storage, and more for interacting with such storage providers in Go. Mat Ryer The Story of the Dreadful Code Written by the Best of Us   video  Katrina Owen tells the tale of taming a messy codebase. 17 minutes. Katrina Owen