--- title: "Russ Cox on Dependencies and the Future of Go" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 208 published_at: "2018-04-26" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/208" --- The latest Golang development news #208 — April 26, 2018 [Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/208) Golang Weekly [Awesome Go: 1400+ Go Links, Libraries and Tools](https://awesome-go.com/) — A thorough list of Go resources in over 50 categories (think game development, ORMs, NLP, plugins for editors, etc.) that continues to be updated frequently. Avelino ▶[On Dependencies and the Future of Go with Russ Cox](https://changelog.com/gotime/77) — Russ Cox of the core Go team shares how he got involved with Go, what Vgo is about, Go 2.0, and more. _1 hour 9 minutes._ (A transcript has been added [here](https://github.com/thechangelog/transcripts/blob/master/gotime/go-time-77.md)) Go Time Podcast [Hello, Tello - Hacking Drones With Go](https://gobot.io/blog/2018/04/20/hello-tello-hacking-drones-with-go/) — The [Tello](https://www.ryzerobotics.com/tello) is a quadcopter that you can control with the [GoBot](https://gobot.io/) Go-powered robotics library. And who could possibly resist a `FrontFlip()` function? 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Russ Cox [Notes On Structured Concurrency (or 'go' Statement Considered Harmful)](https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/) — Heads up, _strong opinions lie ahead_ with this interesting (and lengthy) comparison of the much maligned `goto` statement with goroutines and what the author thinks should replace goroutines. Nathaniel J. Smith [Gojay: A High Performance JSON Encoder/Decoder](https://github.com/francoispqt/gojay) — Boasts it’s the fastest JSON encoder/decoder for Go, it handles structs, arrays, and slices, and can do stream decoding. It is a work-in-progress, however. Francois Parquet [Where Did 'golint' Go?](https://github.com/golang/lint/issues/397#issuecomment-384001884) — The golint package accidentally ‘disappeared’ for a bit this week. It’s all fixed now and things are in place to avoid a reoccurrence. 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