#​588 — February 6, 2026

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Go Weekly

Fiber 3.0: An Express-Inspired Web Framework for Go — A web framework inspired by the likes of Node’s Express and Ruby’s Sinatra. Built on fasthttp, it offers high performance yet a comfy developer experience. The What’s New in v3 guide shows off how significant the release is (it’s the longest release post I’ve seen!) GitHub repo.

Fenny and Contributors

💡 v3 also addresses some common compatibility complaints with better RFC compliance and support for net/http, fasthttp, and Express-style handlers.

How to Stop Bots from Abusing Free Trials — Bots exploit trial signups and drain compute. WorkOS Radar uses device fingerprinting, traffic analysis, and behavioral signals to detect and block abuse in real time while integrating cleanly with your existing auth flow through a simple API.

WorkOS sponsor

Go's synctest is Amazing — The author’s team tried the new testing/synctest package on a complex part of their app and were surprised by its effectiveness. This post shows off some good use cases, and it’s not just time travel: “synctest’s real advantage is being able to deterministically reason about the ordering of events in a test.”

Eric Chiang

IN BRIEF:

Distributing Go Binaries on PyPI Using go-to-wheel — Simon shows how you can distribute Go binaries in Python wheels and install them using, say, uvx, bringing the power of Go to Pythonistas (or even just environments focused on Python tooling by default – e.g. sandboxes) without any fuss.

Simon Willison

▶  Manual Memory Management Using jemalloc — Take over the job of Go's GC using jemalloc via cgo. A fun, practical demo covering a lot in 11-minutes. You'll learn something, even if only that you don't want to try it. 😅

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How I Set Up Free Package Vanity URLs with Cloudflare Workers — Amine wanted a no-cost vanity URL for his packages (e.g. go․domain․com/pkg/name) and Cloudflare Workers offers an ideal solution.

Amine Benseddik

Building a JSON Parser in Go with Egg — There are already many great JSON parsers out there, but JSON provides a good demonstration for Egg, an expression grammar generator for LL(1) grammars.

Modern C

7 Common IDP Implementation Pitfalls (and How to Avoid Them) — Real-world lessons from platform teams on what breaks IDPs in practice and how to fix it before adoption stalls.

Fairwinds sponsor

📺 Lessons from Building a Networking Stack for Microcontrollers – Interesting talk from a TinyGo core maintainer. Patricio Whittingslow

📄 Building an In-Memory Cache in Go Using Generics Ganesh Kumar

📄 Practical Patterns for Graceful Shutdowns in Go Phuong Le

🛠 Code & Tools

✉️ msgvault: Local Gmail Download, Archival and Search — A tool for archiving and searching emails locally, complete with TUI and MCP server. The ultimate goal? Get off of Gmail entirely. But first, Wes needed a local, live-updated copy of his 39 gigabyte inbox.

Wes McKinney

🤖 yzma 1.7: Perform Local Inference with llama.cpp — Run the latest vision and language models locally from Go through llama.cpp with no CGo required (thanks to purego and ffi).

The Hybrid Group

Redka 1.0: Redis Re-Implemented with SQL — A Go-powered data store compatible with Redis’s API but that uses SQLite or Postgres as the storage engine. 1.0 is billed as a stable release, but the project has simultaneously gone into ‘maintenance mode’.

Anton Zhiyanov

Drift: A Cross-Platform Mobile UI Framework for Go — The idea is you write one Go codebase and then build native Android and iOS apps. It’s early days but a neat idea. The intro has the best overview. GitHub repo.

Drift Contributors

httpx 1.8: A Multi-Purpose HTTP Toolkit for Probing Servers — A command line tool, written in Go, for running numerous HTTP ‘probers’ at the same time using the retryablehttp library under the hood.

Project Discovery

  • Ghostferry 1.2 – Copy data between MySQL instances with minimal downtime.

  • 🤖 Fantasy 0.7 – Build AI agents in Go. Multi-provider and model, one API.

  • pgstream 1.0 – CLI tool & library for Postgres replication to any target.

  • Ergo 3.2 – Actor-based framework with zero dependencies.

  • go-elasticsearch 9.3 – Official Go client for Elasticsearch.

  • nmap 4.0 – Idiomatic Go nmap bindings.

📢  Elsewhere in the ecosystem