~golangweekly | Issue 495 - The one with Go 1.22 everywhere (11)

Go 1.22 Released — Keeping in tradition with most even numbered Go releases landing in February, Go 1.22 is here! In theory, the upgrade is as simple as updating the version in go.mod (just be careful of any net/http.ServeMux breakages..) whereupon you'll be able to enjoy a variety of improvements:

How I Write HTTP Services in Go After 13 Years — Mat Ryer, host of the Go Time podcast, wrote a post several years ago about how he wrote HTTP services after eight years of experience – now he's back for a thirteen year redux, covering what’s changed since 2018, and going into more depth overall.

Reducing Go Dependencies — A case study of dependency reduction in Huma, a Go framework for creating HTTP REST APIs using OpenAPI, which might inspire you to consider similar options for your own projects.

Start with the Go Standard Library — Go has a great standard library, so "you should start with it", says Matthew. He also takes time to compare a few of the libraries against third party alternatives.

I Wish Go Had a retry Block — “I kinda wish that Go had some kind of language-level construct for ‘an action that is composed of multiple parts that can fail, and when one fails in a non-permanent way, then the program will wait for some time before trying again’.”

jsonfile: A Quick Hack for Tinkering — Tailscale’s CTO has a bit of a thing for using JSON files as small scale, ad hoc databases. He explains why, the pros and cons, and shares an implementation in the form of jsonfile.go.

🐭🧀  Feeding a Hungry Mouse Using chromedp and Go — chromedp is a package for remotely controlling a Chrome instance over its DevTools protocol. The developer in this post tried using it to automate the playing of a browser-based game.

gdu / go DiskUsage() 5.26.0: A Disk Usage Analyzer with a Terminal Interface — Written in Go, of course. This is a neat tool. Rapidly analyze your disk space usage – it benchmarks well against other tools in the space.

errcheck 1.7: It Checks That You Checked for Errors — Checking for errors is a fundamental part of the Go experience and this tool will help you check that you checked!

Wire 0.6.0: Compile-Time Dependency Injection for Go — Wire’s job is to simplify the management of initialization code when doing dependency injection. The first release in three years!

sh 3.8: Shell Code Parser, Formatter, and Interpreter — Supporting sh, bash, and Korn/mksh formats. Now requires Go 1.21 at a minimum.