Issue #58: Go Newsletter Issue #58

Go Newsletter 58

Issue 58 — May 14, 2015

Featured

Godoc examples are a great way to have executable documentation for a package. This tutorial explains how to write your own example functions.

The Go Blog

Seven5: An Opinionated Go-Only Web App Toolkit with Epic Tutorial

An interesting and highly opinionated (for example, content can only be generated statically, at compile time, or on the client-side) Web framework that uses a lengthy tutorial to get you involved.

Seven5

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Codeship sponsored

Using Go at The New York Times video

JP Robinson, a senior software engineer at The New York Times, walks through how his team has come to adopt Go for almost all back end development.

YouTube

Introducing 'gb': A Project Based Build Tool for Go

We mentioned this project last week, but now its creator has written up about the motivations behind it.

Dave Cheney

Comments Are Not Directives

A Go developer argues against the idea of using comments as directives in Go 1.4: “[..] if Go needs some kind of annotation, there should be a new syntax for it.”

Hacker News

Jobs

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UserVoice

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In Brief

Sorting 5x Faster with Go: How It's Possible, What Didn't Work So Well, and What I Learned

twotwotwo

Writing a Lexer and Parser in Go - Part 2 tutorial

Adam Presley

Why I Like Go’s Interfaces opinion

Yan Cui

Golang Cross Compiler on Heroku (with Docker) tools tutorial

Taichi Nakashima

Machinery: Async Task/Job Queue based on Distributed Message Passing code

Tasks are executed concurrently either by many workers on many servers or multiple worker processes on a single server using Go coroutines.