~golangweekly | Issue 499 - Are single letter variables that bad? (12)

🏏 CricLang: A Programming Language for Cricket Enthusiasts — Cricket, the ball game, not the insect. It’s an experimental DSL of sorts for modelling cricket related scenarios – a bit of fun!

High-Speed Packet Transmission in Go: From net.Dial to AF_XDP — How can you send as many packets per second as possible from a Linux machine using Go? Andree wanted to find out. As he says, “it should be a fun read if you like networking, Go, and benchmarking”, but you can go straight to the code, if you prefer.

📉 The One Billion Row Challenge in Go: From 1m45s to 3.4s in Nine Solutions — We linked to the One Billion Row Challenge in issue 497, but here Ben gets much closer to the fastest Java solution and walks through each optimization clearly.

Go 1.22.1 and Go 1.21.8 Released — As we suggested last week, these Go releases indeed landed soon after we published, but they’re still worth being on your radar as they include security fixes for issues in crypto/x509, net/http, net/http/cookiejar and html/template.

The Missing Type in the Go Standard Library: Date? — The standard library offers a single type for both dates and times which can cause issues when timezones or certain types of interactions get involved. Hardfin has created a package, go-date, to take date representations a little further.

Creating a Postgres Logical Replication System in Go — The folks behind the (Go-powered) Dolt database are working on a feature to replicate data from Postgres and share what they’ve learnt so far in this detailed post.

The Dysfunctional Options Pattern — How to set optional configs without 'cooking up lasagna layers of functional indirections,' by way of a more builder-like approach.

goqite: A Persistent Message Queue Library atop SQLite — Inspired by Amazon’s Simple Queue Service (SQS), goqite is a SQLite-backed persistent message queue for Go apps that lets you bring your own SQLite driver.

FormStream: A Streaming Parser for multipart/form-data — A streamer for multipart form data as commonly used on the Web to send file uploads. Offers wrappers for use with net/http, Echo, and Gin.

Yaegi 0.16.0: Yet Another Elegant Go Interpreter — A Go interpreter to enable Go to be used for scripting within other apps, interactive shells, or for quick prototyping. It boasts complete support of the Go spec too.

🧬 SeqKit 2.8: A Go Toolkit for FASTA/Q File Manipulation — Perhaps only a handful of readers will find this useful but it’s neat to see Go being used in biochemistry. FASTA/Q are formats for storing nucleotide sequences, as used in DNA/RNA analysis. GATTACA!

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