--- title: "Go quirks and intermediate tricks" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 448 published_at: "2023-02-17" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/448" --- Plus the Go powered balloon over Europe. | #​448 — February 17, 2023 [Unsub](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*)|[Web Version](https://golangweekly.com/issues/448) Together with [![Cockroach Labs logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_740,h_100/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:10/d9sktlkk3ipcaszkhybd.png)](https://www.cockroachlabs.com/guides/oreilly-cloud-native-go?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=sponsor&utm_campaign=tofu-pipe-oreilly-cloud-native-go&utm_content=guide-build-for-scale-download-now-newsletter-0217&utm_term=prosp-go-newsletter-primary) The _Go Weekly_ Newsletter [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/tgzfvpr5to6yxgft4hgg.jpg)](https://github.com/ebitengine/purego) [Purego: A Dynamic Way to Call C Functions from Go _Without_Cgo](https://github.com/ebitengine/purego) — No C means you can build for other platforms easily without a target C compiler/toolchain. No wrapper functions either. One of the contributors [noted on HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34764450): _"It uses the same mechanisms that Cgo does to switch to the system stack and then call the C code. Purego just avoids having to need a C toolchain to cross compile code that calls into C from Go."_ Ebitengine [Go Quirks and Intermediate Tricks](https://eblog.fly.dev/quirks.html) — This isn’t the best formatted post, but you might pick up a few things from this list (which, handily, has code examples for each item). 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John is a fan of _both_ Rust and Go and takes a careful look at where each independently makes the most sense. John Arundel 🗣 [Go May Add Telemetry Reporting That's On by Default](https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/googles_go_programming_language_telemetry_debate/) — We featured the [initial discussion](https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409) behind this last week, but _The Register_ has decided to run with the story and digested the public opinion a little more. Issues around ‘phoning home’ and privacy are always going to be fierce, but the _intent_, at least, appears to be good and [as Nate Finch says](https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409#discussioncomment-4909242) _“It’s just Go developers wanting to know how people use their software, so they can make it better. For you. For me. For all of us.”_ The Register **IN BRIEF:** - [Go 1.20.1 and 1.19.6](https://groups.google.com/g/golang-announce/c/V0aBFqaFs_E/m/CnYKgKwBBQAJ) have been released – they include four security fixes around `path/filepath`, `net/http`, and `crypto/tls` - One developer has seen a huge improvement in compile times [just from getting a better SSD?](https://www.octobench.com/comparison-compile-speed-ssd/go-compiler-with-wd-black-sn850-1-vs-samsung-ssd-970-evo-plus-1) - Johnny Boursiquot reminds us it's possible to [request an episode of the _Go Time_ podcast](https://changelog.com/request/gotime), if you've got any guest or topic ideas. [Structured Logging with slog](https://mrkaran.dev/posts/structured-logging-in-go-with-slog/) — There is a language proposal to add [slog](https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/slog) to the standard library ([GitHub discussion here.](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56345)) slog has the basic features you’d expect. Still, not everyone is wild about how it handles attributes and custom loggers. Karan Sharma ▶⬆️ [Really Simple Structured Logging with Tracing](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsPa11N5pzI) Kai Hendry [Building a URL Shortener using Go, SQLite and GORM](https://blog.pratimbhosale.com/building-a-url-shortener-using-go-and-sqlite) — [GORM](https://gorm.io/) is an ORM library for Go. Pratim Bhosale ▶[Debugging Concurrent Programs in Go](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_S9qQ7jzkQ) — The audio isn’t _great_ but this is too useful not to link. 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