Golang Weekly Issue 168: July 13, 2017

Issue 168 — July 13, 2017

Featured

Go Makes It Into TIOBE's Top 10 Languages

The TIOBE Programming Community index is a popular, though controversial, indicator of the relative popularity of programming languages.

Tiobe Index

A Survey of Rounding Implementations in Go

A look at the surprisingly difficult challenge of implementing a rounding algorithm in Go.

Matt Jibson

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ActiveState Software sponsored

go-pry: An Interactive Go REPL

It allows you to drop into your code at any point and is inspired by Ruby’s Pry.

Tristan Rice

Buffered Channels In Go

A few use cases that make sense for buffered channels along with code examples, pros and cons.

Capital One DevExchange

A Through Guide and Tutorial to 'vim-go'

vim-go is a plugin that adds autocompletion, snippet, Go toolchain and other support to vim.

Fatih Arslan

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In Brief

Quick Tip: Writing Useful Constructors in Go tutorial

Hunter Loftis

A Neovim Setup for Go tutorial

Sebastian Dahlgren

Notifications On Channels tutorial

A common concurrency idiom that has a subtle gotcha if you aren’t aware of it.

Justyna Ilczuk

More Benchmarking Go tutorial

Covers escape analysis, the price of using defer, and what happens when you use time.Sleep.

Tit Petric

First Steps with Using OpenGL from Go tutorial

Daniel Ribeiro

Bit Hacking with Go tutorial

A round-up of the bitwise operators in Go, along with some use cases for each operator.

Vladimir Vivien

Database Performance Monitoring Guide

This guide is designed to aid when evaluating database monitoring solutions for your unique environment.

VividCortex sponsored

Set Up A Portable Go Testing Rig with Docker and GoConvey video

Alison Rowland

A Look at the go-kit/log Package video

A simple, extensible logger package that includes contextual loggers and dynamic context values.

Chris Hines

CloudFunc: Deploy Go Binaries to Google Cloud Functions tools

FlowUp

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ROLLBAR sponsored

globe: Globe Wireframe Visualizations in Go code

Michael McLoughlin

ws: A Tiny WebSocket Library for Go code

Sergey Kamardin

fpe: A Format-Preserving Encryption Implementation code

Capital One

Paperboy: A Hugo-Inspired Email Campaign System code

Michael Rykov

Using Your Tensorflow Model with Go code

Random Codewalks

Micro: A Terminal-Based Text Editor code

A pure Go terminal-based text editor that continues to get better.

Zachary Yedidia

XRay: A Tool for Recon, Mapping and OSINT Gathering From Public Networks code

Simone Margaritelli