--- title: "Gin: 12 years, 88K stars, and zero broken APIs" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 608 published_at: "2026-07-03" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/608" --- Plus how pprof works under the hood, and how Go is making VS Code faster to build. #​608 — July 3, 2026 [Read the Web Version](https://golangweekly.com/issues/608) Together with [![agentfield.ai\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_fill,g_auto,e_trim,w_1280,h_229/e_make_transparent/co_white,e_outline:10/kfuqkwkso6tqxqr2r1jz.png)](https://agentfield.ai/github/?utm_source=golang&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=golang-260703&utm_id=golang-260703-github-cta&utm_content=github-cta) Go Weekly [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/xnc1vfp4gct5nswddtcj.jpg)](https://manualmeida.dev/articles/gin-simple-over-easy/) [Building Gin: Simple Over Easy](https://manualmeida.dev/articles/gin-simple-over-easy/) — Did you know [Gin](https://gin-gonic.com/), the popular Go web framework, was built for a social network that never took off? Twelve years and 88K stars later, its creator reflects on choosing simplicity, radix tree routing (complete with a live diagram) and, aptly for a Go project, **never breaking the API.** Manu Martínez-Almeida [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/c_limit,w_480,h_480,q_auto/copm/2d5d7895.png)](https://agentfield.ai/github/?utm_source=golang&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=golang-260703&utm_id=golang-260703-github-cta&utm_content=github-cta) [Build Autonomous Software Factories in Go](https://agentfield.ai/github/?utm_source=golang&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=golang-260703&utm_id=golang-260703-github-cta&utm_content=github-cta) — AgentField is the Go-native AI backend for autonomous software — orchestrate agents as `http.Handlers`, build autonomous software factories, ship production-grade systems. Native Go SDK, open- and closed-source models. [Open source](https://agentfield.ai/github/?utm_source=golang&utm_medium=newsletter&utm_campaign=golang-260703&utm_id=golang-260703-github-cta&utm_content=github-cta). Agentfield.ai sponsor [Understanding the Go Runtime: Profiling](https://internals-for-interns.com/posts/go-runtime-profiling/) — Jesús is back with another of his deep dives, this time into how profiling works under the hood. If you’ve ever used `pprof`, you’ll learn exactly what’s going on inside Go to make it work, and what the five different types of profile measure. Jesús Espino **IN BRIEF:** - A proposal to [allow Go doc examples with any signature](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/79808) is now a 'likely accept'. Examples with parameters or return values will appear in docs but won't be run by `go test`. - `/r/golang` discussed [Go's conservative approach to language evolution](https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1uhxr4c/is_gos_conservative_approach_to_language/). The consensus is that Go's simplicity is a key selling point. - [A proposal to add `Server.MaxHeaderValueCount`](https://github.com/golang/go/issues/79936) to `net/http` (to mitigate attacks where large numbers of spurious HTTP headers are sent) has been accepted. - [Go Report Card](https://goreportcard.com/) has closed after over a decade of scoring the quality of Go repos. We first linked to it in [issue 50](https://golangweekly.com/issues/50)! [How 4 Bytes of Padding Make Array Clearing 49% Faster](https://blog.andr2i.com/posts/2026-06-22-optimization-catalog-how-4-bytes-of-padding-make-array-clearing-49-faster) — Clearing a big Go array runs faster on Intel when it sits at an 8-byte aligned offset. Here’s why, plus a benchmark that also tries out Go 1.26’s experimental SIMD intrinsics. Andrii Berezhynskyi 💡 If this makes you want an alignment linter, [betteralign](https://github.com/dkorunic/betteralign) is a friendlier take on `fieldalignment`, though note both optimize struct _size_, which is what bit Andrii here. 📄 [Zero-Copy in Go: `sendfile`, `splice`, and the Cost of `io.Copy`](https://segflow.github.io/post/zero-copy-sendfile-splice/) Assel Meher 📄 [Vulnerability Reports Are Not Special Anymore](https://words.filippo.io/vuln-reports/) Filippo Valsorda 🛠 Code & Tools [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/hzay0u0jd1ojcbjgkl4p.jpg)](https://github.com/perber/leafwiki) [LeafWiki: A Self-Hosted Wiki in a Single Go Binary](https://github.com/perber/leafwiki) — No complex setup, just a single binary and a data directory with an SQLite database and Markdown files within. 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Tiger Data (Creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor [Mo: View Markdown `.md` Files in the Browser](https://github.com/k1LoW/mo) — Charm’s [Glow](https://github.com/charmbracelet/glow) is a good Markdown viewer on the terminal, but if you’re drowning in Markdown files you’d rather read in the _browser_, this is an elegant solution, and even includes things like syntax highlighting and Mermaid diagram rendering. Ken’ichiro Oyama [Kratos 3.0: A Framework for Cloud-Native Microservices](https://go-kratos.dev/) — A microservices-oriented framework built around HTTP and gRPC. [GitHub repo.](https://github.com/go-kratos/kratos) Kratos - [Fiber 3.4](https://github.com/gofiber/fiber/releases/tag/v3.4.0) – The popular Express-inspired web framework adds support for the [new HTTP `QUERY` method](https://kreya.app/blog/new-http-query-method-explained/), `WithContext` variants for session storage I/O, and more. - [GopherJS 1.21](https://github.com/gopherjs/gopherjs) – Go to JavaScript transpiler. Now supports up to Go 1.21.13. You can [try it out in this playground](https://gopherjs.github.io/playground/#Hello). - [Noisia 0.3](https://github.com/lesovsky/noisia) – A 'harmful workload generator' to stress your Postgres setup. - [Heimdall 8.0](https://github.com/gojek/heimdall/releases/tag/v8.0.0) – Enhanced HTTP client for high-scale usage. - [Joker 1.9](https://github.com/candid82/joker) – Small Clojure interpreter, linter and formatter. - [go-msrpc 1.5](https://github.com/oiweiwei/go-msrpc) – MS-RPC/DCOM client library. 📢 Elsewhere in the ecosystem [![\](https://res.cloudinary.com/cpress/image/upload/w_1280,e_sharpen:60,q_auto/fyout3vstuuhm5tmhr8o.jpg)](https://commit-history.com/) - [Commit History](https://commit-history.com/) is an online tool that creates a chart of a user's total GitHub commits over time. A neat addition to your [profile README](https://docs.github.com/en/account-and-profile/how-tos/profile-customization/managing-your-profile-readme)? - Over the past year, the VS Code team [has been incrementally adopting the Go-powered TypeScript 7 compiler](https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2026/06/26/iterating-faster-with-ts-7) and getting some huge performance wins. - 📊 Frank Denis [benchmarked nine modern WebAssembly runtimes](https://00f.net/2026/06/23/webassembly-runtimes-2026/). - GitHub is continuing with efforts to make repo management less overwhelming with the ability to [restrict issue creation to collaborators with write access](https://github.blog/changelog/2026-06-29-restrict-issue-creation-to-collaborators-only/). - [Git 2.55 has been released](https://github.blog/open-source/git/highlights-from-git-2-55/) with `git history fixup` for 'fixing up' earlier commits, faster `git status` on Linux, and more. - [Gossamer](https://gossamer-lang.org/) is a new Rust-flavored language but that includes goroutines. Curated by Peter Cooper and [Glenn Goodrich](https://twitter.com/ruprict). Go is a [trademark of Google](https://go.dev/brand). The [Go gopher](https://go.dev/blog/gopher), whenever used, is an original creation by Renée French. [Change your email](https://golangweekly.com/edit_subscription/*|UID|*) [Stop getting this newsletter](https://golangweekly.com/leave/*|UID|*) © Cooper Press Ltd · Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Louth, LN11 0LS, United Kingdom