---
title: "Go Newsletter Issue #60"
publication: "Go Weekly"
issue: 60
published_at: "2015-05-28"
canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/60"
---

Go Newsletter 60   . 

[Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/60) 

[Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 60 — May 28, 2015     

Featured [The State of Go 1.5](http://talks.golang.org/2015/state-of-go-may.slide?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email#1) 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](http://talks.golang.org/2015/gogo.slide?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email#1) “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 [Continuous Delivery with Codeship](https://codeship.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Codeship is a hosted Continuous Delivery Service focusing on speed, security, and customizability. It allows for fast and iterative software development and supports your GitHub and Bitbucket projects. Join customers like Sears, Careerbuilder and ProductHunt today! Codeshipsponsored[![\](https://copm.s3.amazonaws.com/89eabf65.png)](https://codeship.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) [A Look Inside Caddy, a Web Server Written in Go](http://blog.gopheracademy.com/caddy-a-look-inside/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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](https://github.com/olahol/melody-jsnes?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) 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?](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1At2Ls5_fhJQ59kDK2DFVhFu3g5mATSXqqV5QrxinasI/edit?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) “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 Jobs [Go Engineer at UserVoice (San Francisco, CA or Raleigh, NC)](https://eng.uservoice.com/careers/) If you want to build a super-fast JSON API in Go, work on analytics and big data, contribute to open source, and ship new features that empower PMs to make data-driven decisions with massive amounts of customer feedback, apply to UserVoice. We can help with relocation. UserVoice [Want to work on new projects? Make more money? Try a new stack? Relocate?](https://hired.com/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) On Hired, we'll bring the options to you. With over 2,000 pre-screened tech companies in 10 cities in the US UK, you'll be sure to find what you're looking for. Join Hired today. Hired.​com In Brief [Securing a Restful JSON API with JWT Authentication in Go](http://blog.brainattica.com/restful-json-api-jwt-go/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Raúl González [Developing in Go with the Nix Package Manager](http://lethalman.blogspot.co.uk/2015/02/developing-in-golang-with-nix-package.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tutorial Luca Bruno [Go: The Price of interface{}](http://www.darkcoding.net/software/go-the-price-of-interface/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Graham King [The Go Beartrap Lying in the Shadows](http://www.qureet.com/blog/golang-beartrap/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) opinion Andrew Bonello [vim-go 1.0.5 Released: A Go Development Plugin for Vim](https://github.com/fatih/vim-go/releases/tag/v1.0.5?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools Fatih Arslan [Go Plugins are as Easy as Pie](http://npf.io/2015/05/pie/?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) tools code Introduces [pie](https://github.com/natefinch/pie), a toolkit for writing plugins in Go Nate Finch [go-ipify: Client Library for ipify, a Simple IP Address API](https://github.com/rdegges/go-ipify?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Use this to retrieve your public IP address via an external service. Randall Degges [Mongolar: An Angular and Go-based CMS](https://github.com/mongolar/mongolar?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code github.​com [A Terminal-based Tetris Written in Go](http://www.jjinux.com/2015/05/tetris-written-in-go.html?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) code Shannon Behrens    

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