--- title: "Writing GitHub Actions in Go" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 399 published_at: "2022-02-11" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/399" --- Plus a step forward for Go powered Telegram bots, and thinking about Go's scheduler. | #​399 — February 11, 2022 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/399) Go Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/dqui9izqanxk8zw1fyqa.jpg)](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51071) [Is it Time to Improve Go's Scheduler?](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51071) — A proposal (although, not an official ‘Language Proposal’) to make Go’s scheduler more like Linux’s ‘Completely Fair Scheduler’, including some demo code that shows promise. The discussion is very young on this, so if you have valuable input to provide, now's the time. Sen Hen et al. 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