#601 — May 15, 2026 |
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Go Weekly |
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'Go Fuzzing Was Missing Half the Toolkit: We Forked the Toolchain to Fix It' — Go’s fuzzer lags the LibAFL-class tools Rust and C++ devs take for granted. Enter gosentry: a fork of the Go toolchain that runs Kevin Valerio (Trail of Bits) |
From 8 Seconds to Under 1: How Depot CI Boots Fast — No warm pools, no pre-warming. Depot CI's microVMs start just-in-time, so cold boot speed is everything. The full optimization story: custom kernel, replacing systemd, ditching cloud-init, and tuning huge pages to get from 8 seconds to under 800ms. Depot sponsor |
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How Cilium Hardens Its Go Supply Chain End to End — Vendoring every Go module is just one of a dozen controls in Cilium’s GitHub Actions and supply chain playbook, from gating PR triggers to signing releases, with an honest list of the gaps they haven’t closed yet. André Martins and Feroz Salam (Cilium) |
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📊 The GoLand 2026.2 Early Access Program — The commercial Go IDE focuses on performance, pulling perf work out of separate tools and into the IDE, like built-in profiler visualization and analysis, escape analysis, a struct layout optimizer, and real-time CPU/memory usage monitoring. Artem Pronichev (JetBrains) |
💡 EAP builds are free to use for 30 days over the EAP cycle, so you can daily drive it for free until the beta. |
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btype: Fast B-Tree-Based Collection Types — From the creator of GJSON comes a new library offering B-tree-based collection types (including maps, sets, tables, queues, and stacks) that’s faster than existing B-tree implementations in Go, Rust, and C++. Josh Baker |
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Building a Distributed Search Engine in Pure Go — Multi-Raft consensus, SIMD-accelerated vectors (via go-highway), and ML inference (via gomlx) without leaving the Go toolchain. Antfly |
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📄 A Deep Dive Into How Your Go Code Becomes a Binary – “This is a really long deep dive.” Gabor Koos |
🛠 Code & Tools |
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🔎 gofumpt 0.10: An Even Stricter Daniel Martí |
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58ms to Fork a Database. 0ms to Clean It Up — ghost gives your agent its own Postgres fork per task. No cleanup, no shared state, no project limits. Try for free. ghost sponsor |
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go-app 11.0: Build Progressive Web Apps with Go and WebAssembly — A framework for building Go-powered PWAs that uses Go’s standard Maxence Charrière |
🎵 lofimusic.app is mentioned as an example of a site built on |
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grdpwasm: A Go WASM-Powered RDP Client for the Web — A browser-based implementation of an RDP (Microsoft's Remote Desktop Protocol) client in Go that's compiled to WebAssembly. Hajime Nakagami |
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