---
title: "Go becomes a teenager"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 436
published_at: "2022-11-11"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/436"
---

Plus what's coming to Go 1.20, a Go-powered Mastodon-a-like, and a look under the covers at Testify. |        

#​436 — November 11, 2022 

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[Thirteen Years of Go](https://go.dev/blog/13years) — It’s now an annual tradition for Russ Cox to blog about the past year of happenings (e.g. on Go’s [10th](https://go.dev/blog/10years), [11th](https://go.dev/blog/11years), and [12th](https://go.dev/blog/12years) birthdays) and now that Go is a _teenager_, there’s a lot to celebrate including fuzzing, improvements to generics, and soft memory limits. 

Russ Cox   

[The Official Structured Logging Proposal](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/56345-structured-logging.md) — Go may be a teenager but that only means it’s continuing to grow! And so it goes with this formal proposal (which started life as [this discussion](https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/54763)) for bringing structured logging with levels to the standard library. Want to play? [Try it here.](https://go.dev/play/p/QstITZ2mF1k) 

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**IN BRIEF** 

- In Go 1.20 on macOS, [DNS lookups will be made through the system](https://danp.net/posts/macos-dns-change-in-go-1-20/) rather than Go's built-in resolver.
- Daniel Martí has a helpful Twitter thread covering [🐦 what's coming to Go 1.20](https://twitter.com/mvdan_/status/1588242469577117696) in early 2023.
- The latest version of JetBrains' commercial GoLand IDE has [entered beta](https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2022/11/04/goland-2022-3-reaches-beta/). There are a _lot_ of enhancements and it now includes an integrated Go playground too.   

[Thoughts on the 'Guard' Proposal for Error Handling](https://wagslane.dev/posts/guard-keyword-error-handling-golang/) — The topic of improving error handling syntax in Go has reared its head again after being a commonly cited point of concern in this year’s Go community survey. Lane isn’t a fan of all the added syntactic sugar but proposes a lighter weight option. 

Lane Wagner   

[A Case for Code Generation: Testify](https://levelup.gitconnected.com/a-case-for-go-code-generation-testify-73a4b0d46cb1) — [Testify](https://github.com/stretchr/testify) adds assertions, helper functions and mocking to the Go testing mix. This post digs into how it works _under_ the hood and how code generation helps with all the boilerplate. 

Fred Bittencourt   

[Building a BitTorrent Client from the Ground Up](https://blog.jse.li/posts/torrent/) — We linked this back in 2020 but it’s been doing the rounds on social media again and it’s truly worth revisiting. 

Jesse Li   

[Forget Everything You Know About SSH](https://tailscale.com/tailscale-ssh/?utm_source=golang&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2022-11-11&utm_content=brand) — Say goodbye to managing SSH keys. Tailscale SSH works where Tailscale works & is free for personal use up to 20 devices. 

Tailscale sponsor   

▶[Let's Talk About Debugging in Go](https://changelog.com/gotime/255) — The Go Time podcast is back with Liran Haimovitch (Rookout) and Tiago Queiroz (Elastic) talking about debugging practices, how the cloud affects debugging, the importance of logging, and more. _(53 minutes.)_ 

Go Time Podcast podcast   

▶[Thinking About Where to Deploy Your Go HTTP APIs](https://go.transistor.fm/episodes/011-options-where-to-deploy-your-go-servers) — Dominic shares the tale of how he moved from a simple VPS to `git push`-driven automated deployment on Render. 

Dominic St Pierre podcast   

[Let's Write a Tiny Chess Engine in Go](https://zserge.com/posts/carnatus/) 
Serge Zaitsev  

🛠 Code & Tools 

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[Canvas: Vectors to SVG, PDF, EPS or Rasterized Images](https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas) — Provides a ‘common vector drawing target’ that can output in various formats, including to a canvas in the browser via WASM. _“It can be considered a Cairo or node-canvas alternative in Go.”_ There are lots of [example programs](https://github.com/tdewolff/canvas#examples) to show off the API. 

Taco de Wolff   

[GoToSocial: A Go-Powered ActivityPub Server](https://github.com/superseriousbusiness/gotosocial) — [ActivityPub](https://www.w3.org/TR/activitypub/#Overview) is the standard behind open federated social networks such as [Mastodon](https://mastodon.social/). This is _not_ Mastodon but does offer some compatibility with its API. 

Super Serious Business   

[Argo CD as a Managed Service from the Creators of Argo](https://akuity.io/akuity-platform/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=cooperpress-sponsored&utm_campaign=golangweekly) — Akuity's architecture increases security, improves scalability, provides insights, and saves money. Available on free trial. 

Akuity sponsor   

[Chroma: A General Purpose Syntax Highlighter in Pure Go](https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma/) — Based on Python’s [Pygments](https://pygments.org/) which is kinda the big cheese in this space. 

Alec Thomas   

[Notify: Send Notifications to Various Messaging Services](https://github.com/nikoksr/notify) — Supports about [thirty different services](https://github.com/nikoksr/notify#supported-services-) including Discord, AWS SES and SNS, Microsoft Teams, Slack, and Telegram. 

Niko Köser   

[Katana: A New Crawling and Spidering Tool](https://github.com/projectdiscovery/katana) — This project is only days old, but already shows promise. Note that it’s a crawler aimed at general CLI use, not a Go library. 

ProjectDiscovery   

[Slashbase 1.0: A Collaborative IDE for Your Databases](https://slashbase.com/) — Built with Go and Next.js, but distributable as a single binary, this is basically a client for Postgres and MongoDB. It’s [open source](https://github.com/slashbaseide/slashbase) too. 

Slashbase   

[Joker 1.1: A Small Interpreted Dialect of Clojure Written in Go](https://joker-lang.org/) — A small interpreter, linter and formatter for the popular Lisp dialect. [GitHub repo](https://github.com/candid82/joker). 

Roman Bataev  

[![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/bmqrlqe4dp3k0fervpav.jpg)](https://github.com/ktr0731/evans)  

[Evans: An Expressive Universal gRPC Client](https://github.com/ktr0731/evans) — Want a REPL for working with gRPC? Here you go. 
Taro Aoki    

Jobs  

[Golang Engineers — 100% Remote (North/South America & Europe)](https://www.ardanlabs.com/careers/mid-level-and-senior-backend-engineer.html) — We’ve got several opportunities for Go devs (some working directly with Bill Kennedy!) and would love to hear from those looking for new challenges in distributed systems projects. 
Ardan Labs   

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- [Wails 2.2](https://github.com/wailsapp/wails/releases/tag/v2.2.0)
 ↳ Cross-platform apps with Go, Electron-style.
- [Ginkgo 2.5](https://github.com/onsi/ginkgo/releases/tag/v2.5.0) – Popular testing framework.
- [Lux 0.16](https://github.com/iawia002/lux) – Video download library & CLI tool.
- [sqlc 1.16](https://github.com/kyleconroy/sqlc) – Generate type-safe code from SQL.
- [ZincSearch 0.3.5](https://github.com/zinclabs/zinc) – Elasticsearch alternative.
- [Cheat 4.4](https://github.com/cheat/cheat) – Command line cheat sheetin'
- [GoatCounter 2.4](https://github.com/arp242/goatcounter) – Web analytics with privacy.         

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