~golangweekly | Issue 518 - Bye Russ, but also hi Russ (11)

Russ Cox Steps Down as Tech Lead of Go — Russ has been instrumental in many of Go’s developments having led the project for 12 years, but it’s time for a change with Austin Clements taking his position. But Russ isn’t leaving the Go world. Indeed, he's already deep into a new project (see next)..

Oscar: An Open-Source Contributor Agent Architecture — As Russ steps away as Go tech lead, he’s stepping into more work on Oscar, an AI agent system to help maintain open-source projects. The first bot, Gaby, is already up and running on Go’s issue tracker, with more to come.

What's the Best Static Analysis Tool for Go? — Static analysis can be a valuable part of an app’s quality toolchain, run by both developers and pipelines. But there are many options, official and otherwise, so which to choose? The answer is (kinda) all of them…?

A 10 Week Go Backend Engineer Onboarding Plan — Stream has published the onboarding program they use for Go developers, which covers the basics of Go, databases, HTTP, and more. This is a great idea and sets expectations if you’re looking for work.

Did You Know About Instruments? — Instruments is a macOS app that allows you to create various traces and profiles of running applications. It offers quite the toolset, as indicated by Thorsten’s palpable enthusiasm.

Implementing HTTP/0.9 from Scratch — The first instalment of a “HTTP from Scratch” series digging into the history of the protocol underpinning the Web.

approf: A Native macOS App for pprof — An app experience for viewing the results from pprof profiling that includes drag/drop, reordering, light/dark mode, and saved sessions.

Glamour: Stylesheet-based Markdown Rendering for Your CLI Apps — Glamour lets you render simple Markdown from your app but then have styles applied to it so that it looks more colorful and elegant once it lands in the terminal. Another great piece of work from the folks at Charm.

mimetype: Library for Detecting MIME Types and Extensions — Supporting 173 different types, you pass in binary data, a data stream or filename and, hopefully, find out what type of data you’re working with.

go-sqlbuilder: A Flexible SQL String Builder Library — Originally focused on MySQL and Postgres, it now supports SQL Server, SQLite, CQL, and more, too. Lets you use structs as a ‘light weight ORM’, and now also supports Common Table Expression and ILIKE.

Minimock: A Tool to Generate Mocks from Interface Declarations — Generates statically typed mocks and helpers, is fully integrated with the testing package, and supports generics.