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The Draft Go 1.24 Release Notes — Last week, we enjoyed Daniel Martí’s slidedeck on what’s coming in Go 1.24 early in 2025 – we’ve now noticed the draft release notes are coming along well and give a thorough bulletpoint-heavy roundup of what we can expect.

Quill 0.5: Sign Mac Binaries from Any Platform — Give it a signing private key and certificate from Apple, Quill does the rest to sign and notarize macOS binaries.

shortuuid 4.2: Generate Concise, Unambiguous and URL-Safe Unique IDs — These aren’t standardized UUIDs, but for when you want short, non-sequential user-facing IDs (e.g. KwSysDpxcBU9FNhGkn2dCf).

🕸️ Katana: A Web Crawling and Spidering Framework — A flexible Go-powered Web crawling tool (which can also be used as a library from Go) that can work in both headless and non-headless modes and has lots of customizable features.

🪨 Pebble: RocksDB/LevelDB Inspired Key-Value Database in Go — A key-value store focused on performance that uses RockDB’s file format but adds a few extra features that CockroachDB needs. It’s used at scale within CockroachDB and is considered stable and production ready.

Weak Pointers in Go: Why They Matter Now — A look at a feature expected to land properly in Go 1.24 (via the weak package). Weak pointers are a low-level primitive that enable the creation of certain memory-efficient structures and Phuong explains the basics of how they work.

▶  WASI to Go: Write Once, Go Anywhere — A talk from the recent WASMCon event exploring Go’s relationship with WebAssembly and how WASM can help ‘Go go anywhere.’ A pretty good primer on the topic as things currently stand.

📊  What's Coming in Go 1.24 — A 52-slide deck that goes through language, tooling, and standard library changes coming to Go 1.24 (expected in January or February 2025). There’s quite a bit here, including generic type aliases, weak pointers, and an experimental test package for concurrent code.

Go! Unlock Your Tech Potential with Ardan Labs Consulting — Struggling with skill gaps, development speed or complex tech challenges? Ardan Labs specializes in Go, Rust, Docker and K8s to accelerate your software development, optimize architecture, and manage tech debt. Let us supercharge your team!

Are Go's Generics Simple or Incomplete? A Design Study — Some argue that Go’s generic implementation only added complexity to the language, while others disagree. Nick takes us through a complex problem that he struggled to solve with generics, eventually ending up with a solution that works but felt a bit harder than necessary. Some commenters on Reddit felt that his approach was more...

Inside Bluesky’s Engineering Culture — A writeup from May 2024 that’s perhaps become more relevant with Bluesky’s recent rapid ascent. Go sits at the heart of the social network’s backend.

superfile: A Terminal-Based File Manager App — Built with Go and Bubble Tea, it combines a visually appealing design with the simplicity of terminal tools, providing a fresh, accessible approach to file management.

♻︎ recur: Retry a Command with Exponential Backoff and Jitter — A Go-powered command line tool for retrying shell based commands in a controlled way until a condition (or success) is met.

Porcupine 1.0: A Fast Linearizability Checker — You write a spec for a system in Go, provide a concurrent history, and Porcupine figures out if the history is linearizable with respect to the spec. There’s a 2017 blog post that explains more.

Sequin: Human-Readable ANSI Sequences — The latest work from the folks at Charm (well known for Bubble Tea, Lip Gloss and other libraries) interprets ANSI sequences into something you can actually understand..

GoMLX: ML in Go without Python — Eli recently wrote about Go’s suitability as a glue language for calling out to third party machine learning services and Python ‘sidecars’, but could you just do the heavy lifting from Go itself? GoMLX provides one option.

gosax: Libary for XML SAX (Simple API for XML) Parsing — A read-only XML parsing library focused on being ‘efficient and memory-conscious.’

Encountering Hyrum's Law in Go — When the author encountered an intriguing comment in Go’s codebase warning others to not change some text due to “Hyrum’s Law”, he had to find out what it was all about.

Go sync.Once is Simple, But How Does It Work? — “The sync.Once is probably the easiest sync primitive to use, but there’s more under the hood than you might think..”

Understanding Command Injection Vulnerabilities in Go — If you’re calling out to system utilities from your code, there are some basic yet essential precautions you can take to avoid security issues, because you certainly don’t want anyone being able to convince your server to run rm or worse..

Git Town: Extra Commands for More Structured Git Usage — Provides additional git commands to automate the creation, synchronization, shipping, and cleanup of branches. Compatible with popular workflows, mono-repos, and trunk-based development. GitHub repo.

GoLand 2024.3 Released — The popular (commercial) Go IDE gets its latest big update with multiline AI code completion, improved startup times for large projects, a way to look for cyclic imports, and a way to emulate a terminal in the output console.

Act: Run Your GitHub Actions Locally — Run act and it looks at your repo’s GitHub Actions, uses Docker to grab the necessary images, and runs the tasks locally.

Signls: A Non-Linear, Generative MIDI Sequencer — If you like noodling with music, you’ll enjoy this. It’s a Go-powered MIDI sequencer that runs in the terminal (cross-platform) and lets you create dynamic, generative music that evolves and changes over time. The author also created Sektron, a Go-powered MIDI step sequencer. GitHub repo.