#349 — February 12, 2021 |
Go Weekly |
The Generics Proposal is Now Really, Truly Accepted — Last week it was a ‘likely accept’ but now you can breathe easy.. all they have to do is the hard work of finishing the implementation(!) What can we move on to demanding of Go next? 😁 Russ Cox |
▶ Indecent (Language) Proposals: A Discussion — The latest episode of the Go Time podcast is focused around recently proposed changes to Go from magical interfaces, to enhancing range loops, make and new with inferred types, lazy values, and more. Go Time Podcast podcast |
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Why I Built Litestream, a Streaming Replication System for SQLite — The creator of BoltDB, a Go powered key/value store, curiously went to SQLite for his next database project and this post explains why he thinks SQLite plus replication (as offered by Litestream) offers a tempting future for many use cases. Ben Johnson |
Building REST Servers in Go using OpenAPI and Swagger — We linked to the remainder of this excellent series last week, but Eli caps it off with a look at how OpenAPI and Swagger can be used to define REST APIs in a standardized way and from which you can generate Go code. Eli Bendersky |
Quick Bits
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📘 Tutorials and Stories |
Go Internals: Invariance and Memory Layout of Slices — Eli discusses why you can’t pass a Eli Bendersky |
Repository Secure by Design: How to Sleep Better Without Fear of Security Vulnerabilities — Part of the fourteen post series at Three Dots Labs, this post covers how to add a security check to a Clean Architecture-based application. Robert Laszczak |
Build a Go App with CockroachDB & GORM — This tutorial shows you how to build a simple Go App with CockroachDB (a DB written in Go) & GORM. Cockroach Labs sponsor |
Getting Started with Felipe Rosa |
Testing Anti-Patterns in Go — Remember, TDD is (often) a good thing and testing is about design as much as anything. Learn Go With Tests |
Why Your Project Needs an Aleksey Kladov |
Everything You Never Wanted to Know About ANSI Escape Codes
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🛠 Code & Tools |
rqlite 5.10.0 Released — rqlite is a lightweight, distributed relational database system written in Go that uses SQLite as its storage engine. 5.10.0 is hugely focused on reductions in disk usage. Philip O'Toole |
v8go 0.5: Execute JavaScript from Go — A mature library with a fresh release adding BigInt to Roger Chapman |
Wasmer Go 1.0: A WebAssembly Runtime for Go — A Wasmer-based WebAssembly runtime for Go. 1.0 adds Wasmer |
The Three Essentials for Achieving Full-Stack Observability New Relic sponsor |
copyist: A Way to Mock Your SQL Database in Go Tests — Automatically records SQL queries and results during a test session and can then play them back without the real database being used. CockroachDB |
Solr-Go 0.2 Released: A Solr Client for Go — Solr is a popular open source search platform built on top of Lucene. Steven Ferrer |
Fiber 2.5.0: An Express.js Inspired Web Framework — If you know Express (from the Node world) than Fiber will look very familiar. Fiber |
Resty 2.5: Simple HTTP and REST Client Library for Go Jeevanandam M. |
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