---
title: "Generics 2022"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 340
published_at: "2020-11-27"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/340"
---

Plus a Go scaling event next week, anonymous structs, and a time mocking library.       

#340 — November 27, 2020 

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[The Latest Draft Design for Type Parameters (Enabling 'Generics'); Now Due in 2022 with Go 1.18](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/refs/heads/master/design/go2draft-type-parameters.md) — Russ Cox has [mentioned](https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/U7eW9i0cqmo/m/ffs0tyIYBAAJ) that the Go compiler will require quite a lot of work to support type parameters so you’ll be waiting until Go 1.18 lands in about 14 months (which _sounds_ closer than '2022' to me 😄) 

Ian Lance Taylor and Robert Griesemer   

[Anonymous Structs: What and Why?](https://qvault.io/2020/04/21/what-are-golangs-anonymous-structs/) — An anonymous struct is a struct defined without a name meaning it can’t be referenced elsewhere. Pointless? No. There are some nice use cases like nested structs or marshalling JSON data, say, where Lane argues anonymous structs handily beat `map[string]interface{}` 

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Ardan Labs sponsor   

▶[Why GitHub's CLI Team Switched From Ruby to Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fuYwyQllMpE) — GitHub famously uses a _lot_ of Ruby (and was founded by four Rubyists!) so it’s interesting to see where it _doesn’t_ make sense. This 3 minute portion of a podcast with Mislav Marohnić of the GitHub CLI team breaks it down. Portability, basically. 

The Changelog   

[Blackrota: Looking Into a Heavily Obfuscated Backdoor Written in Go](https://blog.netlab.360.com/blackrota-an-obfuscated-backdoor-written-in-go-en/) — Netlab is a Chinese security research company and have uncovered what they call _“the most obfuscated Go-developed ELF-formatted malware we’ve found”_ although apparently such projects are not considered common. Lots of details on the obfuscation here though. 

Jia Yu (Netlab at 360)   

[An Online Go Scaling Conference Next Thursday (Dec 3)](https://systemsconf.io/) — _Go Systems Conf SF_ is a free online Go event taking place next week focusing on _building and scaling_ Go-powered systems. Nice speaker lineup from companies like Monzo, VMware, and DigitalOcean. 

Dgraph Labs  

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📘 Tutorials and Stories  

[Python Extensions with Rust and Go](https://www.bruceeckel.com/2020/11/22/rust-retreat/) — Two friends ponder if they should create Python extensions in Rust or Go. The answer is…_wait for it_…it depends! 

Bruce Eckel   

[Connecting to RabbitMQ from Go](https://qvault.io/2020/04/29/connecting-to-rabbitmq-in-golang/) — RabbitMQ is a popular message broker which has good Go support. 

Lane Wagner   

[Live Workshop: Getting Started with OpenTelemetry in Go](https://go.lightstep.com/signup-opentelemetry-golang-distributed-tracing-workshop.html?utm_campaign=golang&utm_source=cooper&utm_medium=Email) 

Lightstep sponsor   

[Building a Blog with Micro in Go](https://blog.m3o.com/2020/11/16/building-a-blog-with-micro.html) — A step-by-step tutorial creating a quick CRUD app for posts. Micro has a robust CLI utility that generates microservices for your cloud-native platform. That’s a lot of buzzwords, but Micro is worth a look. 

Janos Dobronszki   

▶[The Secret Life of Gophers](https://changelog.com/gotime/157) — Mat Ryer, Kris Brandow, Angelica Hill, and Natalie Pistunovich talk about work/life balance, work environment must-haves, communication tips, developer tool recommendations, and more. 

Go Time Podcast podcast  

🛠 Code & Tools 

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/pixvinhdpympq0vto20e.jpg)](https://github.com/benbjohnson/clock)  

[Clock: A Small Library for Mocking Time](https://github.com/benbjohnson/clock) — Provides an interface around the `time` package so an app can use the realtime clock while tests use a mock clock. 

Ben Johnson   

[Box CLI Maker: Make Highly Customized Boxes for Your CLI](https://github.com/Delta456/box-cli-maker) — I think the author of this packages _really_ likes boxes! Single lines, double lines, a mixture of the two.. rounded corners, _only_ the corners, and a lot more options await you here. 

Swastik Baranwal   

[Machinery 2.0.0: An Async Job Queue Based on Distributed Message Passing](https://github.com/RichardKnop/machinery) — It can use Redis, Memcached, DynamoDB, RabbitMQ, or MongoDB as its backend store. 

Richard Knop   

[Merge Word Docx and Add Cover Pages Using UniOffice](https://www.unidoc.io/post/merge-word-docx-add-cover-pages-unioffice) — Merging Docx files is a headache due to the complexity of the format. UniOffice enables this and many other features. 

UniDoc UniOffice sponsor   

[Ethr: A Network Performance Measurement Tool for TCP, UDP and HTTP](https://github.com/microsoft/ethr) — Yep, this comes from Microsoft. It’s nice to see them writing Go, and it works across multiple platforms too. 

Microsoft   

[Smithy: A Tiny Git Forge Written in Go](https://github.com/honza/smithy) — A simple frontend for your git repository if something like [Gitea](https://gitea.io/en-us/) feels a bit too much? 

Honza Pokorny   

[lambda-go-api-proxy: For Porting APIs on Go Frameworks (Such as 'Gin') to AWS Lambda + API Gateway](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-lambda-go-api-proxy) — Also supports Negroni, GorillaMux, and plain `HandlerFunc`. 

Amazon Web Services - Labs   

[CloudQuery: Transforms Your Cloud Infrastructure into SQL Queryable Tables](https://cloudquery.run/) — Open source, written in Go. _select * from aws_ec2_instances_ seems nicer than a CLI. Azure and GCP support are still pending. 

CloudQuery         

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