~golangweekly | Bookmarks (169)

go-mysql-server: A Storage Agnostic MySQL-Compatible Relational Database — A pure Go SQL engine and server that speaks the MySQL protocol and SQL dialect. You get an in-memory storage system included, but can then implement your own backends for storage or querying different data sources.

trdsql: Tool to Execute SQL Queries Upon Text-Based Data — A CLI tool that can execute SQL queries (in Postgres or MySQL syntax) on CSV, LTSV, JSON, YAML and TBLN files. It can also be used as a library within Go apps.

Redka: Redis Re-Implemented with SQLite — It’s not often you see a Go project get so many GitHub stars in just a few days, but after the latest Redis licensing debacle, there’s an appetite for alternative approaches.

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 is an update now taking things all the way through from Go 1.0 to today’s 1.22.

📊 Results of the 2024 H1 Go Developer Survey — Developer sentiment and trust remain high, and the AI-centered survey revealed that Gophers think Go is a good language for this fresh wave of use cases. There’s a lot more room for new libraries and tools to make it easier, however, with Go equivalents of popular Python libraries being particularly desired.

WorkOS: Enterprise-Grade Auth for Modern SaaS Apps — WorkOS supports both the foundational auth and complex enterprise features like SSO. It provides flexible and easy-to-use APIs, helping companies like Vercel, Loom, and Webflow become Enterprise Ready. Best of all, WorkOS User Management supports up to 1 million MAUs for free.

Go is an Object Oriented Programming Language? — A contentious and oft-discussed topic(!), but before you dismiss it as mere clickbait, read David’s reasons on why he thinks “Go is a very object-oriented programming language. More so than Java I think…”

Microsoft Launches a Go Blog — More Go blogs gives us more things to link to, so congratulations to Microsoft 😆 It’s going to be oriented around the use of Go with Azure and Microsoft’s contributions to the Go ecosystem generally.

Versioning Workflows with Go — Learn when and how to apply versioning, then practice using our Go SDK in this free, hands-on training course.

Excelize: Library for Working with Excel Spreadsheets — Read and write XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / and XLTX files. A long time library that keeps going from strength to strength. GitHub repo.

Ebitengine 2.7 Released: The 2D Game Engine for Go — The new feature this time is text/v2, an all new text rendering package that offers improved support for Arabic and vertically-rendered Japanese, glyph vectorization, more text alignment options, and improved OpenType support.

Beego 2.2: Backend Framework for RESTful APIs and Webapps — Inspired by Tornado, Sinatra and Flask. v2.2.0 bumps the Go version to 1.20.

Hookdeck: The Amazon EventBridge Alternative — Receive, transform, filter, route, and send messages across your EDA with an event gateway for engineering teams.

Freeze: Generate Images of Code and Terminal Output — From the purveyors of fine Go-powered libraries and CLI tools like Bubble Tea, Huh and Wish comes Freeze, a fresh way to create images of code and/or terminal output in PNG, SVG or WebP format.

Building an Interactive Shell in Go — From the folks working on the Dolt database (which includes a CLI to take SQL queries and feed them to the database) comes a guide to creating a CLI that’s intuitive and includes features like command history and autocompletion. ishell is their library of choice.

▶  Discussing Debugging in Go — In the latest Go Time episode, Matt Boyle, Bill Kennedy and Jon Calhoun discuss debugging techniques. Bill explains why he doesn’t like his developers to use the debugger, and how he prefers to only use techniques available in production.

Brute Force Text Search Optimizations — If you’ve got a lot of textual data in memory, performing a brute force search upon it can be surprisingly quick nowadays, particularly with some optimizations..

Optimizing SQLite for Servers — Developers are increasingly realizing SQLite can scale a long way and can handle many use cases for which more complex systems are often used. Sylvain goes deep into getting the best out of it.

Building a Blog in Go: Rendering Markdown as HTML — An ongoing series to build a simple blog system using Go.

▶  Pointers for Performance? — Does returning a pointer from a function instead of a value improve performance in Go? (3 minutes.)

LangChain Go: A Go Port/Fork of LangChain for LLM Apps — LangChain is a popular framework (most commonly associated with Python) for developing language model powered apps. LangChain Go reimplements the same concepts in Go. GitHub repo.

A Visual Guide to Slices — A code and diagram-rich post looking at how slices work under the hood, covering slice creation, manipulation using make and append, how capacity grows, and slicing syntax for creating new slices from existing ones.

Charcoal: Faster utf8.Valid Using Multibyte Processing Without SIMD — Offers the same API as the standard library version but boasts being up to 50% faster at checking if a text is made up of valid UTF-8 runes.

'Go Enums Still Suck' — The tone of the title or the article might not vibe with you, but the author reflects on feedback to his first article about Go ‘enums’ and considers the discussion productive.