--- title: "The Go community survey results" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 408 published_at: "2022-04-22" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/408" --- Plus working with SMTP, Go code organization, and turning your photos into triangles. | 🇺🇦 #​408 — April 22, 2022 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/408) 😅 Two weeks ago **we forgot to mention that we were taking a week off for Good Friday,** so if you thought you missed an issue last Friday, don't worry.. you didn't! :-) No planned breaks until at least August now, so we're back every Friday for the foreseeable. Sorry about the confusion. __ _Peter Cooper and Glenn Goodrich_ The _Go Weekly_ Newsletter [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/mwavdhikh3e1xyxfu0pv.jpg)](https://go.dev/blog/survey2021-results) [The Go Developer Survey 2021 Results](https://go.dev/blog/survey2021-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!). 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