Golang Weekly Issue 170: July 27, 2017

Issue 170 — July 27, 2017

Featured

Progress towards a final release continues. There are draft release notes if you want to keep up to date with new features.

Chris Broadfoot

Should Go 2.0 Support Generics?

One of Go’s most recognized users chimes in on the debate with the two choices that the core team has in regard to its biggest issue.

Dave Cheney

Gophercon 2017 Talk Slides, Links and Videos

The largest Go conference took place in Denver two weeks ago and this is the link you need if you want to dig deep into the talks.

GopherCon

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ActiveState sponsored

The Future of Go video

The process of evolving Go, through experience reports, and how it worked for issues like type aliases and other changes to the language.

Russ Cox

How Many Go Developers Are There?

Between half a million and a million, perhaps.

Russ Cox

The Future of Latency Profiling in Go

Go lacks some of the instrumentation capability of other languages and there is an effort to start discussing solutions underway.

Jaana B. Dogan

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In Brief

A New Go Book from O'Reilly: 'Concurrency in Go' news

Recently sent to print.

Katherine Cox-Buday

[eBook] The Ultimate Guide to Building Database-Driven Apps with Go

This book contains years of wisdom from experts & the fastest way to learn how to connect to a database with Go.

VividCortex sponsored

A Detailed Tutorial on Channels in Go tutorial

Golangbot

Adapting Functions in Go tutorial

It’s possible to use closures to adapt a function to your argument (or other) requirements.

Nate Finch

Building a RESTful API with Go tutorial

Francis Sunday

Be Careful of This Slices 'Gotcha' When Using 'append' tutorial

There is a little-known (yet fully documented) side effect of using append that can overwrite your data and be hard to find.

Allegro Tech Blog

Interacting with Ethereum Smart Contracts Using Go tutorial

Mario Zupan

A Look at Go 'Anti-Patterns' video

A quest to define “idiomatic” Go by looking at several anti-patterns.

Edward Muller

Writing a Go Tool to Parse and Modify Struct Tags video

Fatih Arslan

Subtle Issues with ORMs, and How to Avoid Them opinion

Some folks think ORMs are the root of much evil, but here are some ways to use them for great good.

Jon Calhoun

Are We There Yet? The Go Generics Debate opinion

A discussion on the generics fork in the road and opinion that generics is simpler than Go’s current options.

Tyler Treat

Minimock: A Powerful Mock Generation Tool tools

Juno Inc.

Get real-time custom metrics from your Go apps

Instrument your Go apps in a few lines of code to start graphing metrics and setting up alerts in minutes.

Datadog sponsored

Boutique: Immutable Data Storage code

Supports middleware and subscription to field-level changes.

John Doak

go-css-parser: A Very Simple CSS Parser code

Luka Napotnik

Gentleman: Plugin-Driven, Middleware-Oriented HTTP Client Toolkit code

Tomás Aparicio

pargo: A Library for Parallel Programming in Go code

ExaScience