Go's Proposals for Generic Collection Types in Go 1.28 — An umbrella proposal from Go's Collections working group covering several collection data structures intended for the eventual Go 1.28 standard library. Includes a canonical set.Set type, hash-based maps and sets with custom hashers, an ordered map, and a new generic binary heap.

Alan Donovan (Go Team)

Top Open-Source Code Reviewer on Code-Review-Bench — pr-af, AgentField's open-source reviewer, just outranked leading closed models — #2 of 42 on Code-Review-Bench. Multi-agent PR review with ~3× more valid findings than closed tools at ~10× lower cost. Self-hosted, drops into GitHub Actions.

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Watching Go's New Garbage Collector Move Through the Heap — Green Tea became the default GC in Go 1.26, and Phil goes looking with perf and an ASCII map of the heap. Go lays objects out in size-segregated spans and never moves them, which can mean freeing 90% of your objects frees almost no memory.

Phil Eaton

Supervised Fire-and-Forget Tasks in Go — How to run 'fire and forget' tasks with bounded concurrency, panic recovery, and graceful shutdown, instead of bare go func() calls.

Redowan Delowar

Adding Go to a Browser Code Runner — A look at adding Go to a browser code runner, why the usual GOOS=js approach didn't work in a V8 isolate, and how compiling the Yaegi interpreter to WASI got it working cleanly.

Ata Kuyumcu

pgx.CollectRows or Why Nice APIs Don't Have To Be Slow — pgx's CollectRows and RowToStructByName helpers were much slower than handwritten loops. The author got caching fixes into pgx 5.6 (released in 2024) and shows how a rethought abstraction closes the gap almost entirely.

zolstein

A Second Database Is a Dependency You Can Skip — TimescaleDB extends Postgres for analytics at scale, no new service to run. Get $1000 credit to start.

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Gore 0.7: A Full-Featured Go REPL Environment — Has all the niceties you'd expect like line editing, history, multi-line input, expression evaluation, the ability to import packages (and, in v0.7, you can create import aliases too) and gopls-powered code completion.

motemen

Goph 2.0: A Native Go SSH Client Library — Supports connections using passwords, private keys, keys with passphrases, doing file transfers, etc. v2 brings a functional options API, context-aware commands, SOCKS5 proxy, jump hosts, and more.

Mohamed El Bahja

🖼️ webp-go-pure: Pure Go WebP Encoding and Decoding — A pure Go WebP encoder/decoder for when you want to avoid cgo and libwebp.

Kaan Barmore-Genc

soup 2.0: A Beautiful Soup-Inspired Web Scraper — Takes inspiration from Python's popular Beautiful Soup and provides functions for loading and parsing pages and then navigating or reading the elements on them.

Anas Khan