Core Go Developers Respond to Queries Over Who Go Really 'Belongs' To — The ongoing conversation around the “Go is Google’s Language, Not Ours” article we linked last week, including Russ Cox’s response:

There are certainly senses in which Go is Google's language: it was created at Google, Google continues to fund most of the development, and a few people at Google are the final deciders about the language itself. But I disagree with the “not ours:” I think Go is also the Go community's language.

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Announcing the Fastest WebAssembly Runtime for Go: Wasmer — Wasmer is a WebAssembly runtime written in Rust but it is now available to use as a Go library (GitHub). Here’s how to use it and a look at just how fast it is.

Ivan Enderlin

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How to Make a Tic-Tac-Toe Bot with WebAssembly for Go — This post spends a lot of time on the algorithm used to figure out next moves, which is interesting on top of the use of WASM.

Chris Chuck

GRank: An Attempt at Ranking Go Packages a la PageRank — Uses an algorithm based on various factors (GitHub stars, how many other packages depend upon it, etc.) to help you pick the best package for your project. It’s not perfect, but an interesting idea. Logrus is the highest ranked third party package so far.

Bela Hullar

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Zalando Outlets

Find a Go Job on Vettery — Vettery specializes in tech roles and is completely free for job seekers.

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Parallel Test Execution in Go — Did you know that Go has had parallel test runner (of sorts) since version 1.7? I didn’t.

Elani Fragkiadaki

How To Do Math in Go with Operators — A simple subject, you’d think, but there are some nuances around unary operators, precedence, and compound operators.

DigitalOcean

All About Code Completion in GoLand IDE — Read how GoLand's code completions features help to create fast, efficient, and reliable code faster.

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How to Compile Go Code 40% Faster with a RAM Disk — I’m surprised this still matters and your own results may vary but.. interesting nonetheless.

Dalton Tan

'I Don't Know How CPUs Work So I Simulated One in Code' — Written in Go, Daniel has been working on a complete simulation of a computer from NAND gates up to something that actually works. GitHub repo.

Daniel Harper

Unioffice: A Pure Go Library for Working with Office Documents — Supports creating and processing Word (.docx), Excel (.xlsx) and Powerpoint (.pptx) documents. Used to be called gooxml.

UniDoc

TinyGo 0.6.0 Released: The Go Compiler for Microcontrollers and WebAssembly — This came in at the last minute, so I’m going to repeat what Ron Evans said to us: “This is a very big update with great enhanced support for WASM, also much improved CGo capabilities, and also a couple of new Adafruit microcontroller boards, bringing our total up to 14 different MCUs.”

Ron Evans

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Micro 1.2: The Microservice Runtime — A set of tools (API gateway, CLI tools, a dashboard, etc.) for building scalable microservices easily. Version 1.2 adds support for Discord and Telegram bot inputs.

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VictoriaMetrics: A High Performance Time Series Database — Written in Go, it supports PromQL, is happy ingesting historical data, and integrates well with Prometheus and Grafana. GitHub repo.

Aliaksandr Valialkin

gemux: A 'Good Enough Multiplexer' for HTTP Services

Franklin Harding

Viper: A Complete Configuration Solution for Go Apps — Used by projects like Hugo, Nanobox and Docker Notary, this is a mature project but continues to get frequent releases.

Steve Francia

websocket: A New, Minimal, Idiomatic WebSocket Library for Go — Inspired by a couple of other implementations with an eye on simplicity.

Anmol Sethi