---
title: "Generics get one step closer to Go"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 345
published_at: "2021-01-15"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/345"
---

Plus GTA, faking data, and bringing Rails-esque text fixtures to Go. |        

#345 — January 15, 2021 

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[A Proposal for Adding Generics to Go](https://blog.golang.org/generics-proposal) — An official announcement of the promotion of the [Generics Design Draft](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/go2draft-type-parameters.md) to an actual [language change proposal](https://golang.org/issue/43651), which is Go’s process for changing the language. If it is accepted, Go 1.18 is the current target version. 

Ian Lance Taylor   

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Brian Voelker   

[Bleve 2.0: Full-Text Search and Indexing for Go](http://www.blevesearch.com/) — Index any go data structure (including JSON) and query in multiple ways. You can [test it out live](http://blevesearch.com/search/?q=bleve) on Bleve’s own site. [v2.0.0](https://blevesearch.com/news/Bleve-v2.0.0-Released/) isn’t a huge release but has some breaking changes. 

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[GoLand: Running `go fmt` on Save, Yes or No?](https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2021/01/12/running-go-fmt-on-save/) — JetBrains is considering adding a feature to their GoLand IDE that runs `go fmt` on every save. There are many considerations (enumerated here) and they’d love your feedback before they start work on the feature. 

JetBrains  

📘 Tutorials and Stories  

[Making SQLite Faster in Go](https://turriate.com/articles/making-sqlite-faster-in-go) — I’m a _huge_ fan of SQLite - it fits into so many use cases and keeps things simple yet fast. However, you can make it even faster with a connection pool and prepared statements. 

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[Discovering and Exploring `mmap` using Go](https://brunocalza.me/discovering-and-exploring-mmap-using-go/) — `mmap` is a system call for mapping files into memory which can provide a neat abstraction for working with both. Here’s how to use it in Go along with when you shouldn’t. 

Bruno Calza   

[Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway](https://mauricio.github.io/2021/01/14/building-digitaloceans-api-gateway.html) — The full story of how DigitalOcean built its own API gateway in Go. 

Maurício Linhares   

[De-obfuscating Go Functions](https://medium.com/walmartglobaltech/de-ofuscating-golang-functions-93f610f4fb76) — As Go has been used for nefarious purposes, the need to de-obfuscate Go in order to catch bad folks is growing and Jason has an idea for how to begin this process. 

Jason Reaves   

[Dissecting OpenTelemetry Go Tracing](https://dmathieu.com/articles/development/dissecting-opentelemetry-tracing/) — A walk through the OpenTelemetry source code where you’ll learn how to configure a provider, start a trace, and export data. 

Damien Mathieu   

[Going Places: How I Used Go for Every Part of an IoT System](https://dev.to/stanleynguyen/going-places-how-i-used-golang-for-literally-every-part-of-an-iot-system-19fm) — Fulfilling Java’s multi-decade-old promise with Go. 

Stanley Nguyen   

[A Go Slice Tricks Cheat Sheet](https://ueokande.github.io/go-slice-tricks/) — A more visual alternative to the [‘slice tricks’](https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks) shared on the Go wiki. 

Shin'ya Ueoka  

🛠 Code & Tools  

[Resty 2.4: Simple HTTP and REST Client Library for Go](https://github.com/go-resty/resty) — Simple in terms of getting around its API, but in terms of [features](https://github.com/go-resty/resty#features) it’s pretty packed. [2.4.0](https://github.com/go-resty/resty/releases/tag/v2.4.0) adds a new hook that’s called when a request returns an error. 

Jeevanandam M.   

[TestFixtures: Ruby on Rails-Like Test Fixtures for Go](https://github.com/go-testfixtures/testfixtures) — A mature library that takes the opinion that writing tests against a real database is the best approach and provides a way to define predictable fixtures to make this easier. 

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