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5. Learning Go in 2024; From Beginner to Senior — Matt brought together six years of bookmarks (and YouTube history) to point to something for everyone hoping to pick up some new Go skills in 2024.

6. Why People are 'Angry' Over Go 1.23 Iterators — ‘Angry’ is a little OTT, but there was much robust debate about Go’s proposed new iterator helpers earlier this year. The creator of the Odin language chimed in with his thoughts, opining that Go should stay unapologetically imperative.

8. Go Performance from Version 1.0 to 1.22 — Two years ago we enjoyed the author’s Go performance analysis from Go 1.2 to 1.18. This was an update taking things from Go 1.0 through to 1.22 (the latest version back in April).

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.

Go Protobuf and the New Opaque API — The existing protobuf module is here to stay, but now we get an additional API that provides a more loosely coupled abstraction for working with protobufs without being tied to their underlying in-memory representations. The benefits? Memory efficiency, lazy decoding, and fewer opportunities for bugs.

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).

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...

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.

4. Rust vs Go in 2024? — A perennially popular post from yesteryear was tweaked for 2024 with a comparison of the ‘both awesome’ languages including what they’re both good at, their key differences, and some trade-offs to consider. More recently, however, John has asserted that Rust and Go are better off together than apart.

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.

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.

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.

🕒 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.

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).

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.

⚙️ 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.

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.

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.”

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.”