~golangweekly | Issue 496 - Go is popular.. again! (10)

The HTTP Routing Enhancements in Go 1.22 — The Go team’s official take on the new HTTP routing enhancements in Go 1.22: “Go 1.22 brings two enhancements to the net/http package’s router: method matching and wildcards. These features let you express common routes as patterns instead of Go code.” These features are not universally adored so far, however.

Go Enters the Top 10 in the TIOBE Index (Again..) — This story has been doing the rounds on social media, though the same author wrote a similar story a year ago. We also covered Go making it into TIOBE's top 10 six years ago (in issue 168) so don’t read too much into this (especially given how the stats are obtained). Nonetheless, #8...

Calling C from Go — A handy post containing various examples, including passing arrays, strings, and other types from Go to C. Knowing how to properly invoke C code is another arrow in your quiver and could improve your understanding of Go a little, too.

🔥 Fuego: A Nest-Inspired API/Web Framework for Go — “The only Go framework generating OpenAPI documentation from code. Inspired by Nest, built for Go developers.” Here’s a 'hello world' example along with full docs. Or jump into the GitHub repo.

Kubernetes CPU Limits and Go — Go’s runtime doesn’t inherently know that it’s running within a Kubernetes environment, so you may want to take CPU limits and GOMAXPROCS into account if you’re doing this.

Give Go's goto a retry? — It's surely only a mild exaggeration to say many of us were brought up to 'never use goto' but a lot of developers have a strong aversion to its use. Nonetheless, Go has it, it’s used in the standard libraries, and it can be useful in a variety of cases.

How to Monitor for Keywords on Reddit with Go — Reddit’s JSON API makes it pretty easy to scan but YMMV.

Gofakeit v7: The Random Data Generation Library — You can ask it to generate things like random names, email addresses, phone numbers, job titles, and more, or have it help to populate structs using annotated data types. v7 integrates with Go 1.22’s math/rand/v2 which can simplify usage in some cases shown in the release notes. (Main docs.)

ObjectBox Go 1.8: A Fast, Embedded Database for Go Objects — Store objects in ObjectBox and find them again using powerful queries. v1.8 adds support for an in-memory database.

AWS Lambda Web Adapter: Run HTTP Webapps More Easily on AWS Lambda — A Rust project in Go Weekly? 🫣 Fear not, this is a handy adapter that makes it easy to run apps built in any language more easily on AWS’s serverless platform by letting them stick to their usual HTTP serving ways with the adapter bridging the gap.