#539 — January 22, 2025 |
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Go Weekly |
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Go 1.24 Release Candidate 2 Released — We’re another step down the road to the eventual release of Go 1.24, and the Go team are particularly keen for you to kick the tires of the second release candidate: “Run it in dev! Run it in prod! File bugs!” RC2 isn’t a significant jump from RC1 but the draft release notes continue to improve and Anton Zhiyanov’s Go 1.24 interactive tour will get you up to speed. Michael Knyszek |
💡 Go 1.23.5 and 1.22.11 have also been released including a couple of security fixes. |
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▶ How to Build an MMO Game with Godot 4 and Go — A thirteen video YouTube series on building a multiplayer online game using the popular Godot game engine (no relation to Go) and with Go handling the backend. Tristan Batchler |
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IN BRIEF:
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▶ Go in the Smallest of Places — A GopherCon 2024 talk about the potential and technicalities of using TinyGo to build Go-powered systems on microcontrollers. Patricio Whittingslow |
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📄 Mind the convT: Avoiding convT Performance Bottlenecks – The creators of a Go-powered database system explain how they tackled interface-related bottlenecks in their code. Max Hoffman 📄 'I Made an Online PS1 Game and Connected It to a PS4' – Delightfully esoteric. The game is written in C but Go is used to tie everything together behind the scenes. Carl Llewellyn 📄 SQL Transactions in Go: The Good Way Thibaut Rousseau 📄 Go Interfaces: Why, How and When Noam Yadgar 📄 How to Write Better Tests in Go Jakub Jarosz |
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Forgejo 10.0: A Go-Powered Self-Hosted Software Forge — Think Gitea (indeed, it’s a fork of it – more on that here) but with even more features make it a full on GitHub replacement. It powers the Codeberg platform and you can see it in action in Forgejo’s own repo. A new version 10.0 has just dropped. Forgejo Team |
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asyncmachine-go: A Declarative Control Flow Library — Implements AOP and the actor model through a clock-based state machine for building autonomous, stateful workflows. Kentaro Hibino |
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gno.land Offers Grants & Bounties for Go-Powered Decentralized Apps — App builders, Go enthusiasts, tinkerers: come and build on gno.land, a smart contract platform for a freer, fairer world. gno.land sponsor |
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Bunster: Compile Shell Scripts to Static Binaries — bash scripts are already quite portable, but if you want to transpile them to Go and turn them into binaries, here you go. Yassine Benaid |
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