---
title: "Go in the Google I/O spotlight"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 555
published_at: "2025-05-28"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/555"
---

Plus the results of a recent third party cryptography security audit of Go. |        

#​555 — May 28, 2025 

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▶[What's New in Go: Google's Take](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj80m-umOxs) — Released as part of last week’s Google I/O, Go’s project lead and lead devrel team up to present an extensive list of recent additions and improvements to Go. It’s good to see Google presenting an official roundup and there’s more depth in 20 minutes than you might expect (though you can skip the first few minutes which is essentially a pitch for the language). 

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[The Results of Go's Cryptography Security Audit](https://go.dev/blog/tob-crypto-audit) — The core team brought in an external security firm to audit Go’s cryptography packages, resulting in a single low-severity issue in an unsupported integration (fixed in Go 1.24) and various other findings. The team also explains some other security enhancements coming to Go soon. 

Roland Shoemaker and Filippo Valsorda   

**IN BRIEF:** 

- [John Reilly reflects on the recent adoption of Go](https://johnnyreilly.com/typescript-go-pragmatic-choice) for reimplementing TypeScript in a native manner and why Go is 'the pragmatic choice' of language.
- The Go-powered _FrankenPHP_ PHP application server [is now officially supported](https://thephp.foundation/blog/2025/05/15/frankenphp/) by the PHP Foundation.
- [A developer put seven languages (including Go) under a heavy stress test](https://freedium.cfd/https://medium.com/@codeperfect/we-tested-7-languages-under-extreme-load-and-only-one-didnt-crash-it-wasn-t-what-we-expected-67f84c79dc34) to see how they'd cope. Go 'performed admirably' but its GC eventually fell behind.   

[Solving Flaky Tests with Go 1.24's `synctest`](https://victoriametrics.com/blog/go-synctest/index.html) — Goroutine scheduling can introduce hard-to-debug complexity to tests, but Go 1.24’s `synctest` package can make it easier to test concurrent code by introducing isolated ‘bubbles’ to keep things coordinated and more deterministic. 

Phuong Le   

[The _Generics_ Way to Use GORM](https://gorm.io/docs/the_generics_way.html) — [GORM](https://gorm.io/) is a popular ORM library for Go and its latest release (v1.30.0) has added support for using generics. This post shows off the benefits. 

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📄 [Taking More Control Over Your Cobra CLI Documentation](https://www.jvt.me/posts/2025/05/19/cobra-doc-template/) – A tip for those using the [Cobra](https://cobra.dev/) CLI framework. Jamie Tanna 

📄 [Another Tale of `go.mod` Bloat](https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/another-tale-of-gomod-bloat) Ted Unangst 

📄 [Working with JSON Web Tokens in Go](https://packagemain.tech/p/json-web-tokens-in-go) Alex Pliutau 

📺 [Coding a MySQL Database Proxy for Fun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DU7_MQmRDUs) Package Main 

📺 [Building a Minesweeper Game with Go and Raylib](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6E3Y5A80inM) Package Main 

📄 [An Experiment in Using Git as S3](https://kristun.dev/posts/git-as-s3/) Kris Tun  

🛠 Code & Tools 

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[chafa-go: Render Images in the Terminal with Chafa](https://github.com/ploMP4/chafa-go) — Go bindings for [Chafa](https://hpjansson.org/chafa/), a C library that uses smart combinations of Unicode symbols to render graphics in terminal environments (or pass images through to terminal emulators with direct image rendering abilities). It uses [purego](https://github.com/ebitengine/purego) to avoid needing CGO but does need Go 1.24. 

Konstantinos Artopoulos   

[FSBroker: Broker, Group, Dedup, and Filter FSNotify Events](https://github.com/helshabini/fsbroker/) — A library that sits on top of [fsnotify](https://github.com/fsnotify/fsnotify) (which works cross-platform) and converts raw file system events into a more usable form. 

Hazem Elshabini   

[godump: A Pretty-Printer and Debug Dumper for Structs](https://github.com/goforj/godump) — Inspired by a similar feature in Laravel, this library lets you print structs, slices, maps, and more, in an easy to read fashion at the terminal. 

Chris Miles   

[vipsgen: Go Binding Generator for libvips](https://github.com/cshum/vipsgen) — [libvps](https://www.libvips.org/) is a popular and efficient image processing library. vipsgen lets you _generate_ Go bindings against a libvips install that are type-safe, robust, and fully documented. 

Adrian Shum      

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- [TableWriter 1.0.7](https://github.com/olekukonko/tablewriter) – Render rich text tables in ASCII, Unicode, Markdown, and at the terminal_(see above)_.
- [Gnet v2.8](https://github.com/panjf2000/gnet/releases/tag/v2.8.0) – High-perf, non-blocking event loop networking library.
- [Joker 1.5](https://github.com/candid82/joker) – A small Clojure interpreter and linter.
- [go-redis 9.9](https://github.com/redis/go-redis/releases/tag/v9.9.0) – Official Go Redis client library.
- [webdav 5.8](https://github.com/hacdias/webdav) – Standalone WebDAV server.
- [Roaring 2.5](https://github.com/RoaringBitmap/roaring) – [Roaring bitmaps](https://roaringbitmap.org/) for Go.  

🕹️ And one for fun.. 

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[Night Knight: A 60 FPS Go Remake of an 80's Videogame](https://ancad.itch.io/night-knight-remake) — A reader and their partner made an Ebitengine powered retro game, converted from a game originally on the 1980’s [MSX](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSX) home computer. It’s available to download for Windows only. 

Anca and Claus   

😅 I've been ['vibe coding' my own Go 3D game](https://x.com/cooperx86/status/1919514173274288273) too – it's been a lot of fun and definitely a learning experience..        

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