--- title: "Bringing SIMD into Go?" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 416 published_at: "2022-06-17" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/416" --- Plus meet some DALL-E gophers, Go 1.19 beta 1, and the world's last Go developer sends a message back in time. | #​416 — June 17, 2022 [Unsubscribe](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Read on the Web](https://golangweekly.com/issues/416) The _Go Weekly_ Newsletter [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/eeherc2pqotlqvi72drt.jpg)](https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/SNruPJUSFz0) [Go 1.19 Beta 1 Released](https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/SNruPJUSFz0) — This post on the golang-announce group just has the basics of how to download it, but [these draft release notes](https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.19) go further into actual features (which are predominantly fixes and tweaks - don’t expect a big 1.18 style release, though the addition of an optional soft memory limit for the runtime is interesting). The Go Team [Language Proposal: Bring Direct SIMD Support into Go](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/53171) — Language proposals are always interesting to read, particularly when they provoke discussion; here, a `simd` library to take advantage of SIMD (Single Instruction, Multiple Data) CPU instructions is proposed and has been marked “active” by the core team for now. Moritz Poldrack [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/536fe896.png)](https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/apm/debugging-go/?utm_source=advertisement&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dg-cooperpress-applications-ww-go-p-debugging) [Troubleshoot and Optimize Golang App Performance with Datadog APM](https://www.datadoghq.com/dg/apm/debugging-go/?utm_source=advertisement&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=dg-cooperpress-applications-ww-go-p-debugging) — Datadog’s APM generates detailed flame graphs to help you identify bottlenecks and latency in your Golang code. 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[How Static Code Analysis Prevents You From Waking Up at 3AM with Production on Fire](https://xeiaso.net/talks/conf42-static-analysis) — An extensive and well transcribed presentation (with a video version available, too) that discusses the pros of static analysis along with several examples of using `go vet` and staticcheck effectively. Xe Iaso [How to Deploy a Go Webapp with Docker](https://semaphoreci.com/community/tutorials/how-to-deploy-a-go-web-application-with-docker) — A comprehensive look at building a Go web application with Docker, including development environment, production considerations, and building with CI. Kulshekhar Kabra (Semaphore) [Adventures in AWS Lambda Land: A Migration Gone Well](https://spacelift.io/blog/aws-lambda-migration) — Lessons learned moving from long-running processes hosted in containers (ECS) to a serverless-based approach, including some annoying-but-still-better-anyway gotchas. Jacob Martin (Spacelift) ▶[Creating Basic Game Animations with Go and Raylib](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yd2TtdMYb8A) — Raylib is a cross platform 2D drawing/gamedev library that [has Go bindings.](https://github.com/gen2brain/raylib-go) Avery Makes Games ['Don't Put All Your Code in Internal'?](https://ido50.net/rants/dont-put-all-your-code-in-internal) — An unsurprisingly controversial self-proclaimed rant about the use of ‘internal’ packages to hide implementation details from end users. Food for thought, even if you disagree. Ido Perlmuter 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60/ctl4r3ny7zjcd4yildvj.jpg)](https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma) [Chroma 2.2: A Pure Go General Purpose Syntax Highlighter](https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma) — Take source code and turn it into syntax highlighted HTML, ANSI colored text, or just grab the raw tokens in JSON. Brings most of the features of [Pygments](https://pygments.org/) to Go and can use Pygments’ lexers and styles too. There’s [an online playground](https://swapoff.org/chroma/playground/) where you can try it out too. Alec Thomas [Trie: Trie Implementation Targeting Auto-Completion Use Cases](https://github.com/shivamMg/trie) — An interesting aspect to this project is there’s a WebAssembly-powered [online demo.](https://shivammg.github.io/trie/) Certainly feels fast in the browser. shivam mamgain [Securing Your MongoDB Database](https://goteleport.com/blog/hardening-mongodb/?utm_campaign=eg&utm_medium=partner&utm_source=golangweekly) Teleport sponsor [Validate: A Generic Data Validation and Filtering Library](https://github.com/gookit/validate) — Lots of examples in the README. Validate maps, structs, HTTP requests, add custom error messages, and has about [70 built-in validators.](https://github.com/gookit/validate#built-in-validators) Gookit [Rope: A Persistent Rope Data Structure](https://github.com/deadpixi/rope) — Very new and no docs, so you’ll want to check [the tests](https://github.com/deadpixi/rope/blob/main/rope_test.go) for examples. A [“rope”](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rope_%28data_structure%29) is basically a binary tree of strings. Rob King **QUICK RELEASES:** - [go-mysql 1.6](https://github.com/go-mysql-org/go-mysql) – Pure Go MySQL wire protocol library. - [Tengo 2.12.0](https://github.com/d5/tengo) – Small scripting language for inside Go apps. - [Garble 0.7.0](https://github.com/burrowers/garble/releases/tag/v0.7.0) – Obfuscate Go build info. - [Task 3.13.0](https://taskfile.dev/) – A Go answer to `make`. - [RoseDB 1.1](https://github.com/flower-corp/rosedb) – Bitcask-inspired NoSQL database. 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