The Go Developer Survey 2021 Results — The survey results are out. While they’re broadly in line with previous years, there are always a few interesting things that pop up, as well as getting to see where the community wants the team to focus next (bear in mind 'generics' was a top demand for many years!). Some key points:

• Over 55% of respondents use Go on a daily basis.
• The most common languages being used for projects Go was considered for are Rust and Python.
• Improved depdendency management and debugging tools are the two top improvements Gophers want to see.
• Linux's popularity has dipped slightly, macOS stayed flat, and Windows has become more popular (going from 19% in 2020 to 24% in 2021).
• 73% of Gophers still have yet to try fuzzing.

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RedisGreen: Secure, Scalable, Full-Featured Redis Hosting — The latest Redis features, instrumented and scaled with the tools teams need as they grow.

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When To Use Generics — We’ve linked to Ian’s neat talk on generics before, but now his general guidelines for using generics have been written up and shared on the official Go blog.

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A Deep Dive into Go for OpenFaaS Functions — The creator of OpenFaaS (a functions as a service layer for Kubernetes) details the new Go templates in OpenFaaS that make life a lot easier (and your apps more robust), as well as improvements that came courtesy of Go 1.18.

Alex Ellis

SMTP Protocol Basics From Scratch in Go — At its core, email is based around open protocols and, in theory, you can spin up your own code to do sending and receiving with nothing else required. Phil gives it a go from Go.

Phil Eaton

Revisiting Arrays and Slices with Generics — Learn Go with Tests has been a long standing learning resource in the Go world and it’s neat to see it getting updated like this.

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Should You Commit the Vendor Folder in Go? — Because there are no absolutes.

Lane Wagner

Triangle 2.0: Convert Images to Art with Delaunay Triangulation — Takes your images, makes them more triangle-y. From the creator of the Pigo Go face-detection library.

Endre Simo

panicparse: A Panic Stack Trace Parser and Debugging Tool — “Crash your app in style”(!) Helps debugging crashes and deadlocks in heavily parallelized process. Go 1.17 and 1.18 are now both fully supported.

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goda: Go Dependency Analysis Toolkit — List or make cool graphs of what your program is using, including slicing them by OS or test packages or lots of other options.

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Free Activity Feeds & Chat APIs for Qualifying Teams

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TruffleHog: Finds Credentials All Over The Place — Much as pigs will hunt for truffles, this Go-powered ‘hog’ will work its way through git repos, S3, your file system, and elsewhere, looking for secrets and other such nuggets you might not want out in the wild.

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aws-lambda-go: Go Libraries, Samples, and Tools for AWS Lambda — Libraries, samples and tools to help you build functions for AWS’s flagship serverless platform. v1.30.0 has added request and response types for Lambda’s new Lambda Function URLs feature.

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Qmgo: An Easier-to-Use MongoDB Driver — It’s based upon the official MongoDB go driver but aims to provide an easier to use interface.

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