--- title: "A future for generic methods in Go?" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 586 published_at: "2026-01-23" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/586" --- Plus the results of the latest Go developer survey are in. | #​586 — January 23, 2026 [Read the Web Version](https://golangweekly.com/issues/586) Together with [![Tiger Data logo\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,w_1280,h_282/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:30/px1u7kjyvz7xnbm6ytir.png)](https://www.tigerdata.com/timescaledb?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=golang-weekly-newsletter) Go Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/g4eynl5qehdkewlqvevq.jpg)](https://go.dev/blog/survey2025) [Results from the Latest Go Developer Survey](https://go.dev/blog/survey2025) — Over 5,000 Go developers responded to the latest official survey, broadly reporting a high level of satisfaction with the language and tooling. Frustrations include difficulty following best practices, missing or disliked features, and trouble finding trustworthy third-party modules. We also learn a little about developers' AI usage. Todd Kulesza and the Go Team [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/8a8a25b4.png)](https://www.tigerdata.com/timescaledb?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=golang-weekly-newsletter) [Query Billions of Rows in Milliseconds](https://www.tigerdata.com/timescaledb?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=golang-weekly-newsletter) — Hypertables, 95% compression, continuous aggregates, and 100% Postgres. Query billions of rows in milliseconds. No new query language to learn, no extra infrastructure to manage. [Start building for free](https://www.tigerdata.com/timescaledb?utm_source=cooperpress&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=golang-weekly-newsletter). Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor [A Proposal to Add Generic _Methods_ to Go](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/77273) — It’s early days, but when a proposal arises from one of Go’s co-creators, it’s worth listening! In Go, functions can be generic, but methods cannot, and while generic methods were never intended to be added to Go, _“perhaps a change of view is in order”_. Robert Griesemer et al. **IN BRIEF:** - 🕹️ [Playdate](https://play.date/) is an indie, handheld, monochrome gaming device and Roman Bielyi [has created Pdgo,](https://devforum.play.date/t/golang-support-for-playdate-compiler-sdk-bindings-tools-and-examples/24919) an SDK for building Playdate apps in Go. - [Nature](https://nature-lang.org/) is a general-purpose systems language, heavily inspired by Go and they've released [some Nature vs Go performance benchmarks.](https://nature-lang.org/news/20260115) - Microsoft has released its [custom builds of Go 1.25.6-1 and 1.24.12-1.](https://devblogs.microsoft.com/go/go-1-25-6-1-and-1-24-12-1-microsoft-builds-now-available/) [Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple and Fast](https://research.swtch.com/fp) — A fantastically deep and technical tour of implementing some modern floating point number manipulation algorithms in Go. It’s not just academic, either: _“I expect some form of this Go code to ship in Go 1.27.”_ Russ Cox 😱 [Panic Recovery](https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-01-09-golang-panic-recovery/) — Even if you never use `panic` directly, you still need to know how to recover from panics as they can arise in many ways. Jason covers the basics and shares some gotchas the DoltHub team has encountered. Jason Fulghum [Dancing Backwards with Go](https://blog.jetbrains.com/go/2026/01/12/dancing-backwards-with-go/) — “Dancing backwards” in this context is a playful framing for TDD, and John skips through this example with the grace of Ginger Rogers. John Arundel 📄 [Patching the Wii News Channel to Serve Local News in 2025](https://raulnegron.me/2025/wii-news-pr/) – Delightfully niche and a fun use for Go. Raúl Negrón 📄 [A Rust Developer's Honest Review of Go](https://benraz.dev/blog/golang_review.html) – A developer who has been using Go for a few months shares what he does and doesn’t like. Ben Raz 📄 [Writing a Time Series Database from Scratch in Go](https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1b5mGL6e0lkXGx2kZxpveoMCv5m93Tx2-hEsePBsGAzI/view?slide=id.p#slide=id.p) – A slide deck. Aliaksandr Valialkin (VictoriaMetrics) 📄 [On Starting to Write a Compiler in Go](https://popovicu.com/posts/writing-your-first-compiler/) Uros Popovic 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/w3cg5uxhqqq7hayyiit3.jpg)](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/01/a-json-schema-package-for-go.html) [Google's JSON Schema Package for Go](https://opensource.googleblog.com/2026/01/a-json-schema-package-for-go.html) — Two members of the Go team introduce us to a comprehensive JSON Schema package Google uses in the official Go SDK for MCP. JSON Schema provides a way to describe the shape of JSON values, so values can be generated or validated to the spec. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/google/jsonschema-go) Amsterdam and Thanawalla [Deploy Your Services Anywhere with Cloud 66](https://www.cloud66.com/products/deploy/) — Run APIs on your cloud of choice with Kubernetes orchestration and full control over builds & clusters. Cloud 66 sponsor [go-quickjs-wasi-reactor: Run QuickJS Efficiently Under Go](https://github.com/aperturerobotics/go-quickjs-wasi-reactor) — Run the WASM-based [NG fork](https://github.com/quickjs-ng/quickjs) of the embeddable [QuickJS](https://bellard.org/quickjs/) JavaScript engine directly within your Go app. Uses an approach that lets you step through the JS event loop manually, if you like, and poll for IO yourself. Aperture Robotics [GopherJS 1.20: A Go to JavaScript Transpiler](https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs) — Provides the opportunity to write front-end code in Go and run it in the browser _sans_ WebAssembly. There’s [an online playground](https://gopherjs.github.io/playground/) if you want to have a quick play. [v1.20](https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs/releases/tag/v1.20.0) brings things up to Go 1.20.14 standards. GopherJS [mactop: A Terminal Based Monitoring Tool for Apple Silicon](https://github.com/metaspartan/mactop) — A Mac-specific `top`-a-like that shows off real-time CPU and GPU usage, along with metrics about power and memory usage. Carsen Klock - [Echo 5.0](https://github.com/labstack/echo/releases/tag/v5.0.0) – Popular extensible high performance web framework. A maintenance release but with major breaking changes. - ✉️ [Notifuse v26](https://github.com/Notifuse/notifuse) – Self-hosted emailing platform for sending and designing newsletters and transactional emails. AGPL licensed. - 🤖 [grepai 0.21.0](https://github.com/yoanbernabeu/grepai) – Index code using vector embeddings and use natural language queries to find conceptually related code. - [Google API Linter v2.2](https://github.com/googleapis/api-linter) – Real-time checks for compliance with Google's API standards on protocol buffer-defined API surfaces. - [Sonic 1.15](https://github.com/bytedance/sonic) – High performance JSON serialization and deserialization library accelerated by JIT and SIMD. - 🤖 [Crush v0.34.0](https://github.com/charmbracelet/crush/releases/tag/v0.34.0) – The Charm team's terminal-based AI coding assistant. - [GoProxy 1.8](https://github.com/elazarl/goproxy) – Library for creating custom HTTP/HTTPS proxy servers. - [Postgresus 3.5](https://github.com/databasus/databasus) – Backup tool for Postgres, MySQL and MongoDB. - [pgmetrics v1.19](https://pgmetrics.io/) – Collect and display metrics from Postgres servers. - [Telego 1.5](https://github.com/mymmrac/telego) – Telegram Bot API library. 📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem Some other interesting stories in the broader landscape: - 🤖 Esteemed coder Steve Yegge is [up to some interesting stuff with Gas Town](https://steve-yegge.medium.com/welcome-to-gas-town-4f25ee16dd04), a sort of large scale, multi-agent orchestration system for Claude Code, all built in Go. Tim Sehn has [written a bit more about it here.](https://www.dolthub.com/blog/2026-01-15-a-day-in-gas-town/) - 🔎 The VS Code team explains [how they implemented a new, fast client-side docs search system](https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/01/15/docfind) for the VS Code site using WebAssembly. You can use their [docfind engine](https://github.com/microsoft/docfind) for yourself too, and [there's a live demo](https://microsoft.github.io/docfind/) showing off how fast it is over an index of 50,000 articles. - 🐘 Postgres users might enjoy [this article about alternatives to 'soft delete'](https://atlas9.dev/blog/soft-delete.html) where rather than use a boolean or datetime flag, you could use a trigger to move a row to an archive table or capture deleted rows from the WAL for archival. - A look at [the state of WebAssembly in 2025 and 2026.](https://platform.uno/blog/the-state-of-webassembly-2025-2026/) Curated by Peter Cooper and [Glenn Goodrich](https://twitter.com/ruprict). 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