--- title: "Google's got a Go style guide" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 437 published_at: "2022-11-18" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/437" --- Plus more on the new logging format proposal, a Go Time milestone, and being a twirp. | #​437 — November 18, 2022 [Unsub](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Web Version](https://golangweekly.com/issues/437) Together with [![Ardan Labs\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:7/uf5bdgdgdbgcbdrzi6r7.png)](https://www.ardanlabs.com/careers/mid-level-and-senior-backend-engineer.html/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20PrimaryV4) The _Go Weekly_ Newsletter [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/ob8kxtmwzapactaqyztz.jpg)](https://hmarr.com/blog/go-allocation-hunting/) [Making a Go Program 70% Faster with a One Character Change](https://hmarr.com/blog/go-allocation-hunting/) — How can you resist a title like that? This is the tale of tracking down a ‘silly mistake’ that led to a program running more slowly than it should have been. Slight spoiler: the character was `&` .. It also inspired [a Hacker News discussion.](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33594676) Harry Marr [Google's Go Style Guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/index) — What goes for Google doesn’t necessarily go for everyone else, but it’s interesting to see their stance on writing idiomatic Go. The [actual style guide is here](https://google.github.io/styleguide/go/guide) and is pretty short and sweet, focusing on clarify, simplicity and consistency as tenets. Over on Reddit, Google’s Matt Proud [noted](https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/yy8edb/googles_internal_go_style_guide/iwtvoqv/) that this is early days and there’s still work to be done in sharing this work more widely. Google [![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/d66ea58f.png)](https://www.ardanlabs.com/careers/mid-level-and-senior-backend-engineer.html/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20PrimaryV4) [Gophers - Opportunity is Knocking](https://www.ardanlabs.com/careers/mid-level-and-senior-backend-engineer.html/?utm_source=Cooperpress%20PrimaryV4) — We’re a premier software engineering firm looking for mid to senior level engineers to help us develop advanced software solutions and applications in Go. Got at least 1 year of professional Go experience and located in the Americas or Western Europe? We want to hear from you. Ardan Labs sponsor ▶[A Consistent Logging Format for Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gd_Vyb5vEw0) — Last week we linked to the [structured logging proposal](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/design/56345-structured-logging.md) but here’s its author selling it to you more directly in an 11-minute screencast if you find it easier to digest this way. Jonathan Amsterdam (Google) **IN BRIEF** - The _Go Time podcast_ has turned `math.Pow(2, 8)` episodes old! What better way to celebrate than with [▶️ an episode about gRPC and protocol buffers](https://changelog.com/gotime/256). - The [first release candidate](https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2022/11/17/goland-2022-3-release-candidate-is-out/) of JetBrains' _GoLand_ 2022.3 IDE is out. - The NSA (the US intelligence agency) [recommends using Go](https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/11/nsa_urges_orgs_to_use/) instead of C or C++. Sort of. Not quite. Basically, languages like Go have the features needed to survive in a threatening dog-eat-dog world. [RPC in Go using Twitch's Twirp](https://thedevelopercafe.com/articles/rpc-in-go-using-twitchs-twirp-3dcb78ece775) — [Twirp](https://github.com/twitchtv/twirp) is like gRPC but somewhat easier to deploy and specifically focused on Go to Go use cases. Twitch [wrote more about it](https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2018/01/16/twirp-a-sweet-new-rpc-framework-for-go-5f2febbf35f/) at the project’s release in 2018. Gurleen Sethi ▶[How To Compose Interfaces](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gW7oSFxT2I) — A short (11-minutes) and sweet screencast on composability with interfaces. Anthony’s [channel](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCIjIAXXsX4YMYeFj-LP42-Q/videos) is well worth a skim as he covers Go and Rust. Just two days ago he also released a screencast on [▶️ building a JSON API in Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYCVQpqQh7Q). Anthony GG [Three Ways to Embed a Commit Hash in Go Programs](https://developers.redhat.com/articles/2022/11/14/3-ways-embed-commit-hash-go-programs) Panagiotis Georgiadis (Red Hat) 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/yg6tixevjnfro1apolfz.jpg)](https://github.com/1pkg/varint) [VarInt: Memory Efficient Arbitrary Bit Width Integers](https://github.com/1pkg/varint) — If, for some reason, you want to store a hundred 100 bit integers in exactly 10000 bits, this minimalist library is for you. It also provides some basic arithmetic and bitwise ops. Kostiantyn Masliuk [golang-lru: Fixed-Size Thread-Safe LRU Cache](https://github.com/hashicorp/golang-lru) — The latest release adds support for generics 🎉 HashiCorp 🍰 [Pie: A Utility Library for Dealing with Slices](https://github.com/elliotchance/pie) — Ways to work with slices with a focus on type safety, performance and immutability. 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It includes a dashboard and API docs. zhenghaoz - [AWS Lambda for Go 1.35](https://github.com/aws/aws-lambda-go) ↳ Official serverless helpers for Go devs. - [lo 1.35](https://github.com/samber/lo) ↳ Lodash-style library based on generics. - [rqlite 7.11](https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/releases/tag/v7.11.0) ↳ Distributed relational database atop SQLite. - [Slashbase 1.1](https://github.com/slashbaseide/slashbase) ↳ Collaborative in-browser database IDE. - [Chroma 2.4](https://github.com/alecthomas/chroma) — Pure Go syntax highlighter. - [go-elasticsearch 8.5](https://github.com/elastic/go-elasticsearch) — Elasticsearch client. - [fzf 0.35](https://github.com/junegunn/fzf/releases/tag/0.35.0) — Command-line fuzzy finder. - [go-github 48.1](https://github.com/rqlite/rqlite/releases/tag/v7.11.0) — GitHub v3 API client. 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