Go 1.14 Released — The big news is modules are now considered truly ready for prime time (a.k.a. “production use”)! Beyond that, there are some minor feature additions and performance efficiencies. Upgrade today. (Here’s a 12 minute video from London Gophers on what’s new.)

Alex Rakoczy

The Zen of Go — A transcription of Dave’s GopherCon Israel 2020 that applies the Zen of Python to Go in an attempt to suss out Go’s engineering values. We featured the briefer list of principles a few weeks ago.

Dave Cheney

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The Go 1.14 Release Notes — If you want to go deeper on the new 1.14 release, this is the place to be. The release notes tidily summarize all of the changes introduced since 1.13.

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Early Impressions of Go from a Rust Programmer — This is a good and objective writeup. It’s interesting to hear from a Rust programmer who doesn’t think Go and Rust compete for the same use cases.

Nick Cameron

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My Go Gotcha of the Day: Closing Over Loop Variables — Unless, of course, you want to ignore all but the last value in the collection.

Jesse Duffield

Using Domain-Driven Design(DDD)in Go — Entities, Repositories, Values! Oh my! This complete tutorial covers those DDD concepts and more, including utilities and a Vue-based front end.

Steven Victor

The Awesomeness of the httptest Package in Go — httptest is awesome and has more use cases than just straight automated unit tests.

Gianluca Arbezzano

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Equality in Golang — There’s a lot here around methods like DeepEqual and packages like go-cmp. When comparing articles about equality, you might say this one has, um, no, um, equal…

Michał Łowicki

Porting a Go-Based Face Detection Library to WASM: A Q&A with Endre Simo — Pigo is a face detection library that Endre Simo has ported to WebAssembly providing very simple and fast access to the webcam and face detection in a browser. Here’s the story.

InfoQ

Chime: A (Pro) Go Editor for macOS — We mentioned the closed beta a few months back but now this new Go-oriented editor for macOS is available to try out.

Chime

esquery: An Idiomatic Go Query Builder for ElasticSearch — A library that makes it easier to use the official Go client for Elasticsearch by letting you write simpler, fluent code to represent queries.

Aqua Security

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sqlc: Generate Type Safe Go From SQL — sqlc supports a nice set of features, including transactions, array data types, and various migration tools.

Kyle Conroy

gnark: A Fast Zero-Knowledge Proof Library — This is over my head mathematically speaking, but it sounds interesting!

HackMD

Shox: A Customizable, Terminal Status Bar — Rather experimental but works in an interesting way (it proxies output from your shell and adjusts ANSI drawing commands so it can remain on top).

Liam Galvin