#612 — July 31, 2026 |
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Go Weekly |
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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 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. Agentfield.ai sponsor |
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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 Phil Eaton |
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IN BRIEF:
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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 Redowan Delowar |
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Adding Go to a Browser Code Runner — A look at adding Go to a browser code runner, why the usual Ata Kuyumcu |
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zolstein |
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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. Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor |
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📄 Wrapping Errors with Defer – A small pattern combining 📄 Go's Maps: How Swiss Tables Replaced the Old Bucket Design Gabor Koos |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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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 |
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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 |
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🖼️ webp-go-pure: Pure Go WebP Encoding and Decoding — A pure Go WebP encoder/decoder for when you want to avoid cgo and Kaan Barmore-Genc |
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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 |
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