--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #51" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 51 published_at: "2015-03-26" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/51" --- Go Newsletter 51 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/51) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 51 — March 26, 2015 Featured [Golang UK Conference (August 21 in London, UK)](http://www.golanguk.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) It seems there’s a new Go conference on the scene this summer. There’s a [call for speakers](http://www.golanguk.com/speakers/) open until the end of May if you want to speak. GolangUK.​com [The State of Go in 2015 with Andrew Gerrand](https://thechangelog.com/148/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) podcast Core team member Andrew Gerrand is featured in an 80 minute podcast interview with The Changelog talking about the state of Go and what’s coming in 1.5 and 1.6. The Changelog [The first ops platform for developers](https://opbeat.com/?campaign=golangweekly&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=golangweekly100) When an error happens, Opbeat will show you the code that is breaking, who wrote it, and how it is affecting performance. Experimental Go support. _Go newsletter readers get $100 credit._ Opbeatsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/906f6ee6.png)](https://opbeat.com/?campaign=golangweekly&utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=ad&utm_campaign=golangweekly100) [(Text) Interview with Go's Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani](http://www.pl-enthusiast.net/2015/03/25/interview-with-gos-russ-cox-and-sameer-ajmani/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) “The most important thing I learned is that a successful programming language is about far more than the language itself.” The PL Enthusiast [ASCII Table Writer: Generate ASCII-drawn Tables](https://github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Quite flexible, automatically pads, supports multiple line entries, alignments, custom separators, and more. Ideal to present tabular info in a CLI situation. Oleku Konko [Why Go’s Design Is A Disservice to Intelligent Programmers](http://nomad.so/2015/03/why-gos-design-is-a-disservice-to-intelligent-programmers/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Very opinionated. Sparked [much discussion](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9266184) on Hacker News. _(Note: Inclusion is not endorsement.)_ Gary Willoughby In Brief [GopherCon 2015 CFP Open till March 31](http://cfp.gophercon.com/events/gc15?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news The conference itself takes place in Denver, CO over July 7-10. GopherCon [Komodo 9 Released: A Cross-Platform IDE That Now Supports Go](http://komodoide.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) news ActiveState [HTTPS and Go](https://www.kaihag.com/https-and-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Kai Hagelstein [Fulfilling A Pikedream: The Ups of Downs of Porting 50k Lines of C++ to Go](https://togototo.wordpress.com/2015/03/07/fulfilling-a-pikedream-the-ups-of-downs-of-porting-50k-lines-of-c-to-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion logicchains [Dynamic HTTP Routing in Go with Travel](https://asynch.ro/blog/2015/03/19/dynamic-http-routing-in-go-with-travel/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code tutorial Benjamen Keroack [go-bqstreamer: Stream Data Into Google BigQuery Quickly and Concurrently](https://github.com/rounds/go-bqstreamer?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Rounds [Go-menu: Simple Interactive Command Line Menus](http://blog.turret.io/go-menu-simple-interactive-command-line-menus/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code turret.​io [Pastedown: An Open-Source, Self-Hosted Pastebin Server in Go](http://pastedown.ctrl-c.us/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Caleb Spare [Puzzl: An Sliding Puzzle Game for Your Terminal](https://github.com/pravj/puzzl?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Pravendra Singh [Dedent: Remove Leading Whitespace From Multiline Strings](https://github.com/renstrom/dedent?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Peter Renström [go-pry: A Pry-esque REPL for Go](https://github.com/d4l3k/go-pry?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code If you’ve used the powerful Pry Ruby REPL, go-pry aims to provide some of the same features to Go. Tristan Rice [netbug: Provides A Handler for Registering Profilers On Your Own ServeMux](https://github.com/e-dard/netbug?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Could be useful to folks who want to have remote profilers available on their live services, without being tied to the default servemux. Edd Robinson [httpdiff: Performs Same Request Against 2 HTTP Servers and Diffs The Results](https://github.com/jgrahamc/httpdiff?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code John Graham-Cumming Go Newsletter is curated by [Peter Cooper](https://twitter.com/peterc) [Read this issue on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/51) [See our archives](http://golangweekly.com/issues) [Change your email address](*|UPDATE_PROFILE|*) [Stop getting this newsletter](*|UNSUB|*) Published by [Cooperpress](https://cooperpress.com/) Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK