Golang Weekly Issue 190: December 7, 2017

Issue 190 — December 7, 2017

Featured

The story of a Go program that crashes on certain machines but not others which led to a very low-level debugging mystery.

Hector Martin

Repeatable and Isolated Development Environments for Go

Brian Ketelsen shows off some ways he works around the issue of creating isolated development environments without too much trickery involving GOPATH or otherwise.

Brian Ketelsen

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How to Add an Electron-Powered GUI to a Go App in 5 Steps

A tutorial leaning on astilectron, an Electron app that lets you communicate between Go and the front-end interface over TCP.

Asticode

Using GopherJS with gRPC-Web

GopherJS provides the ability to write Go in the browser leading to streaming from a Go server to a Go client without writing your own JavaScript.

Gopher Academy

Error Handling in Upspin

How the Upspin project (a global file naming service of sorts) uses a custom package to represent error conditions that arise inside the system.

Rob Pike and Andrew Gerrand

MailHog: Web and API-Based SMTP Testing Service tools

Written in Go, all you do is run up MailHog, set your app’s outgoing SMTP server to connect to it, and you can view outgoing mail in MailHog’s UI.

Ian Kent

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In Brief

Automating Go Development with 'make' tutorial

Some ways to bring the classic Unix tool into your Go dev workflow.

Kevin Burke

Managing Dependencies, Forks, and Code Patches with 'dep' tutorial

Aditya Mukerjee

2017 Year in Review for Open Source Database Software

Join Percona’s Chief Evangelist, Colin Charles on Wednesday 12/13, at 7:00 am PST (UTC-8) to discuss changes and trends impacting software producers using open source.

Percona sponsored

Using Postgres Arrays from Go tutorial

RapidLoop

Deploying a Go App to Kubernetes in 30 Seconds tutorial

Sergey Kolodyazhnyy

Processing Spreadsheet Data in Go tutorial

Reading and writing CSV files and processing the data inside.

Applied Go

Creating Your Own Chatbot Experience with go-sarah tutorial

Oklahomer

Asking Reddit: Which Editor Do You Use for Go Development? opinion

Over 100 replies, with vim, VS Code, Emacs, and GoLand leading the way.