~golangweekly | Issue 519 - The GopherCon UK experience (13)

Go 1.23 Released — We’ve been hearing about (and linking to) 1.23 for weeks in its various pre-release guises, but now it's here. You could call 1.23 a 'major minor' release, as it's mostly a gentle step forward but with some new features, like for range iteration and tooling additions (including the now opt-in telemetry system). Head to the official release notes for all...

Structs are Copied on Assignment (and Other Things About Go I'd Missed) — This gotcha likely catches many new-to-intermediate gophers, along with the other issues Julia also mentions. By the way, these are based on a few of the 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them site and book.

A Complete Introduction to Containers — Join Brian Holt for this extensive video course covering the now industry standard approach for developing and deploying apps. You'll learn about core container technology, Docker Images, multi-container projects, and much more.

▶  12 Talks from GopherCon UK 2024 — GopherCon UK took place just a few days ago, but you can already enjoy a variety of talks including Matt Boyle on debugging Go apps, Jesús Espino digging into Go’s runtime, Beth Anderson on AI, and Google’s Michael Pratt look at profile guided optimization. We'll feature more talks in future issues as we watch them, as there's a...

HTTP/1.0 From Scratch — We recently featured Kevin’s HTTP/0.9 From Scratch, a first step into reimplementing the basics of HTTP, step by step, in Go. Now we get to fast forward five years to 1996 and HTTP/1.0 which introduced things like the POST action, status codes, and content negotiation.

'An Unordered List of Things I Miss in Go' — A solid list with some doable and not-so-doable items. On the doable side, there are ordered maps and default arguments. On the not-so-doable, null/nilability is a long-time contentious subject that likely would break backward compatibility.

Go Maps Explained: How Key-Value Pairs Are Actually Stored — A comprehensive, illustrated tutorial to how things are represented under the hood.

go-vcr 4.0: Record and Replay Your HTTP Interactions — Record and replay API interactions for faster, deterministic testing of potentially flaky endpoints – here’s the v4.0 changelog. (If you’ve used Ruby, you might recognize its inspiration: the popular VCR library.)

GoNB: A Go Notebook Kernel for Jupyter — Notebooks make it easy to do literate programming where you see results immediately like a REPL but with persistence and control over the source code. Common in Python, GoNB brings Go into the picture too. The latest release adds Jupytext support.

FusionAuth. Auth Built for Devs, by Devs — Choose self-hosting or cloud, scale from 10 to 10 million users, and enjoy unlimited IDPs. Trusted by industry leaders with 10M+ downloads.

Pie 2.9: A Utility Library for Dealing with Slices — Ways to work with slices with a focus on type safety, performance and immutability. Now with a a new UniqueStable operation.

Lo: A Lodash-Style Library for Go 1.18+ — Inspired by JavaScript’s Lodash and brings similar utility methods for working with slices, maps, and more.

kubetrim: Trim Your KUBECONFIG Automatically — Takes your kubeconfig and trims out all the old / unused clusters and contexts.