--- title: "An alternative Go playground" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 403 published_at: "2022-03-11" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/403" --- Plus generating TypeScript types from Go structs, and a new high level library for RabbitMQ. | #​403 — March 11, 2022 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/403) The _Go Weekly_ Newsletter [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/adld2kcce11v1jxlkwk8.jpg)](https://goplay.tools/) [GoPlay: A Better Go Playground?](https://goplay.tools/) — Powered by React and the Monaco editor control behind VS Code, the “better” here includes a dark theme, autocompletion, a ton of loadable snippets, file loading/saving, and WASM support. There’s also [a Docker image](https://hub.docker.com/r/x1unix/go-playground) so you can have a _private_ playground of your own and tell those kids to get off your lawn. Denis Sedchenko [Isolating Problematic Cgo Code](https://jonwillia.ms/2022/03/09/isolating-problematic-cgo-code) — This is a wonderfully explained tutorial on using parent-child processes to create, pass, and monitor file descriptors for memory- and CPU-intensive work. Jon Williams [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/6289618f.png)](https://about.sourcegraph.com/use-cases/?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=go-weekly&utm_content=dev-onboarding#accelerate-developer-onboarding) [Understand a Complex Codebase in Minutes, Not Weeks](https://about.sourcegraph.com/use-cases/?utm_medium=newsletter&utm_source=go-weekly&utm_content=dev-onboarding#accelerate-developer-onboarding) — Decrease time to first commit with self-serve onboarding, codebase exploration, and knowledge sharing. Improve dev velocity by making it easy to search and find code and context. 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