--- title: "Playing mental poker in Go" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 372 published_at: "2021-07-23" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/372" --- Plus Go's the language everyone wants to learn, and using Go for a gRPC service on Google Cloud Run. | #​372 — July 23, 2021 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/372) Go Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/j5fhcmvwlklyp0qyvm8o.jpg)](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/om66b5/oc_most_popular_programming_languages_according/) [Go Now the 4th Most Popular Language on GitHub](https://www.reddit.com/r/dataisbeautiful/comments/om66b5/oc_most_popular_programming_languages_according/) — A fun data visualization on Reddit’s /r/DataIsBeautiful sub shows the popularity of different languages in public GitHub repos. JavaScript comes first, with Python, Java, and then Go just behind. Reddit [Delve 1.7.0: A Popular Debugger for Go](https://github.com/go-delve/delve) — A long standing project which has just this week [added](https://github.com/go-delve/delve/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md#170-2021-07-19) Go 1.17 support, a new API and terminal command for watchpoint setting, and more. Derek Parker [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/0f4741bf.png)](https://www.ardanlabs.com/training/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20PrimaryV4) [Advanced Engineering Go, Docker & K8’s Training](https://www.ardanlabs.com/training/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20PrimaryV4) — Ardan Labs provides instructor-led live-streaming training and self-paced online video training for teams and individuals. Join the 10,000 + engineers who’ve dramatically improved their engineering skills using Ardan Labs training now! Ardan Labs sponsor [Accessing Postgres Databases in Go](https://eli.thegreenplace.net/2021/accessing-postgresql-databases-in-go/) — No ORMs here, it’s a review of low-level ways to access Postgres databases from Go, including the `pq` driver, `pgx` and `sqlx`. Eli Bendersky [An Interesting Go Memory Issue?](https://boyter.org/posts/interesting-go-memory-issue/) — Found while running a test, a program that should never hit the OS memory limit did just that and Ben has theories as to why. Ben E. C. Boyter [How Does `sync.Map` Work Internally?](https://sreramk.medium.com/go-inside-sync-map-how-does-sync-map-work-internally-97e87b8e6bf) — A very long and detailed look at the how and why of using `sync.Map` along with some ways you might optimize its performance. Sreram K [Playing Mental Poker in Go](https://tpaschalis.github.io/mental-poker/) — Is it possible for two potentially dishonest players to play a fair game of poker without cards at arm’s length? Apparently the answer is yes and the author set out to recreate such a system in Go. Paschalis Tsilias [Go Related Findings in JetBrains' Developer Ecosystem Survey](https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/go/) — I’ve enjoyed looking through the extremely plentiful results from JetBrains’ _The State of Developer Ecosystem 2021_ survey and Go gets [an entire page of its own](https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/go/). [Gin](https://github.com/gin-gonic/gin) is the big winner in the Web framework stakes, [Mux](https://github.com/gorilla/mux) in routing and, elsewhere, Go is the most likely language for all survey respondents to [consider migrating to in the next year](https://www.jetbrains.com/lp/devecosystem-2021/#Do-you-plan-to-adopt--migrate-to-other-languages-in-the-next--months-If-so-to-which-ones). 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Hired [Deploying a gRPC and gRPC Web API on Google Cloud Run](https://blog.gendocu.com/posts/grpc-on-google-cloud/) — Leans on Cloud Run’s experimental HTTP/2 support and implements the backend in Go. GenDocu gRPC Blog [Wrapping Commands in Go](https://developer20.com/wrapping-commands-with-go/) — “Commands” here are shell commands and the example shows how to run and parse the output of a command. Bartłomiej Klimczak [On Building Business Apps in Go](https://goingwithgo.com/2021/07/building-business-applications-in-golang-three-dots-labs/) — An interview with Miłosz Smółka, one of the co-founders of Three Dots Labs and co-author of the book _Go With the Domain_ about the realities of building business software using Go. 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AskGit [go-yaml: YAML Encoding, Decoding and Querying for Go](https://github.com/goccy/go-yaml) — A mature library that even supports YAMLPath, a way of extracting values or ASTs by a simple query language ([example](https://github.com/goccy/go-yaml#5-use-yamlpath)). Masaaki Goshima Curated by [Glenn Goodrich](https://twitter.com/ruprict) and [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc). [Change your email address](https://golangweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*) or[Stop getting this newsletter](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*) © Cooper Press Ltd · Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, United Kingdom