Solod: A Subset of Go That Translates to C — Can Go be a ‘better C’? Solod (a.k.a. So) is a simplified version of Go with manual memory management (and no runtime) for C-style systems programming but with a syntax you already know. It’s early days but some interesting work is coming out of it, such as Anton’s work on porting Go's stdlib to C.

Anton Zhiyanov

10MB Binary. 10-Service Analytics Stack. Something's Off. — Go's philosophy is simplicity. Your data stack should match. TimescaleDB extends Postgres with hypertables, 95% compression, and continuous aggregates. Analytics on live data, no second database, no pipeline. Start building for free.

Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) sponsor

Calling a Rust Library from Go Without Cgo — cgo is useful, but there are often reasons to avoid it. Can you call a Rust library from Go without Cgo or WebAssembly? Yes, but it’s tricky, has risks, and isn't advised for every situation.

Semih Alev

A Fast Immutable Map in Go (with Tradeoffs) — constmap gets you 3x faster lookups and 6x less memory used per key than map, but with several tradeoffs, including only offering string to uint64 mapping, being unable to tell if a key is missing, and increased construction time.

Daniel Lemire

CI that goes from commit to running job in 2–3 seconds — AI shifted the bottleneck to integrating code. Get 2s job starts and parallel steps for $0.0001/s. Run depot ci migrate.

Depot sponsor

Better Go Playground 3.0 — Newly powered by CodeMirror, you get syntax highlighting, autocompletion, file loading/saving, a VIM mode, and WASM support for running code in the browser, though by default it calls the official playground behind the scenes. You can also deploy it with Docker for a playground of your own. GitHub repo.

Denis Sedchenko

🤖 Google's Agent Development Kit for Go Goes 1.0 — A Go-flavored version of Google’s framework (also available for Python and Java) for building and deploying AI agents. v1.0 adds OpenTelemetry integration, self-healing logic, and enforcement of safety guardrails with human-in-the-loop confirmations. “The future of Go agents is here. Let’s build it.”

Toni Klopfenstein (Google)

ghw 0.24.0: Hardware Discovery/Inspection in Go — Retrieve info about a machine’s memory, CPU, GPU, storage, network, etc. Focused on Linux and Windows, with (very) partial macOS support.

Jay Pipes

cors 1.0: CORS Middleware Library — A lot of polish for a milestone release of what claims to be “perhaps the best CORS middleware library for Go.”

jub0bs

go-version 1.9: Version Number Parsing and Verification Library — For when you need to do things like check version numbers against constraints (e.g. is '1.2' >= 1.0, < 1.4). It also parses, sorts, and compares versions.

HashiCorp

Test7800: An Experimental Emulator for the Atari 7800 — An accurate Atari 7800 emulator written in Go, which supports a variety of cartridge types for the legendary 1980s console. From the same creator as Gopher2600, a now mature (and still actively developed) Atari 2600 emulator.

JetSetIlly (Gopher2600)

godoom: A Pure Go Doom-Style 3D Engine — A bare-metal, decoupled 3D rendering and physics engine in the Doom style. I kinda got it working after grabbing a shareware copy of DOOM.WAD but it’s clearly a WIP.

Marcello Russo