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Go 1.24 Release Candidate 1 Released — This announcement isn’t particularly exciting, but if you want to get ahead of what’s coming in February 2025 with the final Go 1.24 release, the holidays aren't a bad time to have a play. The draft Go 1.24 release notes go into more detail.

3. Interactive Release Notes for Go 1.23 — If you find traditional release notes hard going, this interactive alternative with inline executable code snippets might help you get a grip on 1.23, still the latest major version of Go. Anton also had a similar set of notes for Go 1.22.

1. Cogent Core: A New GUI Framework for Go — I was surprised this was by far the most clicked link as news tends to trump frameworks/libraries. Cogent is a “code once, run everywhere” GUI framework aiming to be simpler than Gio and more powerful than Fyne. Cogent’s site itself is built with the framework and compiled to WASM to run on the Web. It...

Benchmarking Different Go SQLite Drivers (Again) — An update of a benchmark we first linked a year ago. As with any benchmark results, maintain a critical eye here, but the author found significant differences between the now eight options (previously seven).

Soft Serve 0.8: A Self-Hostable Go-Powered Git Server — Another handy project from the folks at Charm. Soft Serve is a self-hostable Git server that offers up a nice terminal UI (TUI) over SSH, has various access control features for collaborative use cases, and even supports Git LFS.

Templ vs Gomponents vs html/template — A comparison of three view related libraries for Go, including old favorite html/template (which, perhaps unfairly, gets a one star rating).

⚙️ Orchestrion: Compile-Time Auto-Instrumentation for Go — Instrumenting code is tedious and inconsistent when done manually, but automating it is difficult. Enter Orchestrion, which injects instrumentation at compile-time and supports many third-party libraries so you can instrument your code, create tracers, etc. without changing the dev process.

Zero Ops Apache Kafka Replication and Data Mirroring — Moving to WarpStream to reduce your Kafka costs by 80+% and simplify ops is easy with 1:1 replication provided by Orbit.

go-wasm-http-server 2.0: Embed Go HTTP Handlers in a Service Worker — Embed your Go HTTP handlers in a Service Worker using WebAssembly and emulate an HTTP server browser-side. Some of the examples might give you some inspiration.

Goverter: A Type-Safe Go Converter Generator — Generate type-safe converters by writing signatures of the type conversions and then Goverter will write the code you need to make it happen. GitHub repo.

Echo: Extensible, Minimalist Go Web Framework — Though it’s not too minimal, offering HTTP routing, automatic TLS, data binding, templating, middleware, and different ways to render data out of the box. v4.13.0 removes the JWT middleware from Echo core due to security issues. GitHub repo.

GTML: Make Writing HTML in Go a Breeze — This package touts itself with “Think of it like JSX for Go,” allowing you to take an HTML-like syntax and generate a StringBuilder that renders it in Go code.

gARM: An ARM64 Compiler for Go — The author thinks we can do better than Go’s assembly approach for high performance ARM64 use cases, so has set out to make his own approach. It's early days, however.

🕒 Coming in Go 1.24: An Experiment for Time and Concurrency Testing — A look at another feature coming to Go 1.24 early next year. This time it’s the experimental testing/synctest package which opens up some added opportunities for testing code involving time or concurrency: “It seems that testing/synctest will significantly improve testing code that involves time or concurrency. At work, I’ve already tried it on...

What's Missing from Go's Generics? — Follow-up to an article we recently linked that posited that Go’s generics are ‘incomplete’ which spurred some lively discussion. Here, Nick responds to that discussion with specific features and how Go may or may not benefit from their inclusion.

Master the Basics of Go — Join Maximiliano Firtman for this detailed video course covering the fundamentals of all things Go. You'll gain a thorough understanding of structures, goroutines, channels, async API calls, and much much more.

Vince: Go-Powered, Self Hosted Web Analytics System — Web stats, link tracking, and more, for unlimited sites and in a single binary. It can even act as a drop-in replacement for Plausible and use the same scripts. There’s an example of a live dashboard. GitHub repo.

🔊 go-taglib: Read/Write Audio Metadata Tags — Read and write metadata tags for audio files (like MP3, FLAC, and OGG) including support for multi-valued tags. Portable with no external runtime dependencies (it embeds a WASM version of the C++-based taglib). (Note: LGPL licensed.)

Rill 0.6: A Composable Concurrency Toolkit for Go — A collection of functions for streaming, parallel processing, and pipeline construction – all aiming to make it “easier to build concurrent programs from simple, reusable parts.”

Diving into eBPF: Building a Process Tracer from Scratch — This is certainly a deep dive down a technical Linux rabbit hole, but this sort of post is gold for when you need to plumb such depths.

Go-App: A Package to Build Progressive Web Apps with Go and WebAssembly — An intriguing way to build webapps entirely in Go (including the frontend UI). astextract is a Go-source-to-AST app that demonstrates the concept. GitHub repo.

Why Go Slices Still Surprise Me — Slices are a common source of confusion and bugs, and this could be due to the merging of two different use cases into one concept. Sometimes, it’s a 'fat pointer'; sometimes, it’s a dynamic array. Confusing the two is where the pain starts.

Running a Simple Go Web Service on NixOS — “I only just started using NixOS modules to manage my personal services, but I’m excited at how well they work for so little investment.”

We Put the Go in Google Gemini — Google Gemini 1.5 Flash 8B for Go has a 1M token context window, capable of processing more than 30,000 lines of code via screencast or logfiles in seconds for a fraction of the cost. Build today using the Google API Quickstart in Go.