---
title: "#168: Go Makes It Into TIOBE's Top 10 Languages"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 168
published_at: "2017-07-13"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/168"
---

Go Newsletter 168   . 

[Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/168) 

[Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 168 — July 13, 2017     

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Hired In Brief [Quick Tip: Writing Useful Constructors in Go](https://hunterloftis.github.io/2017/07/11/useful-constructors/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Hunter Loftis [A Neovim Setup for Go](https://medium.com/@sebdah/my-neovim-setup-for-go-7f7b6e805876?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Sebastian Dahlgren [Notifications On Channels](http://blog.atte.ro/2017/07/09/golang-channel-notification-select.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial A common concurrency idiom that has a subtle gotcha if you aren’t aware of it. Justyna Ilczuk [More Benchmarking Go](https://scene-si.org/2017/07/07/benchmarking-go-programs-part-2/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Covers escape analysis, the price of using defer, and what happens when you use `time.Sleep`. 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