Golang Weekly Issue 60: May 28, 2015

Issue 60 — May 28, 2015

Featured

A slide deck by a core team member that looks at Go 1.5, scheduled for release in August. Its tool chain has been converted from C to Go, GC latency is improved, there’s support for Android and experimental support for iOS, plus a lot more.

Andrew Gerrand

Go in Go

“As of the 1.5 release of Go, the entire system is now written in Go. (And a little assembler.) C is gone.” A look at some of the background to this move.

Rob Pike

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A Look Inside Caddy, a Web Server Written in Go

Caddy is a Web server (a la nginx or Apache) written in Go that supports HTTP/2 and uses interesting ideas like middleware based routing.

Matt Holt

melody-jsnes: Multiplayer NES via WebSockets and Go code

Connects together the JSNES JavaScript NES emulator with a Go server and WebSockets to enable two player support in the browser.

Ola Holmström

A New Go 1.5 GOMAXPROCS Default?

“To date, the default setting of GOMAXPROCS in Go releases has been 1. For Go 1.5, we propose to change the default to the number of CPUs available.”

Russ Cox

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In Brief

Securing a Restful JSON API with JWT Authentication in Go tutorial

Raúl González

Developing in Go with the Nix Package Manager tutorial

Luca Bruno

Go: The Price of interface{} opinion

Graham King

The Go Beartrap Lying in the Shadows opinion

Andrew Bonello

vim-go 1.0.5 Released: A Go Development Plugin for Vim tools

Fatih Arslan