~golangweekly | Issue 547 - How and why PlanetScale built a VM in Go (10)

Go on the PlayStation 2 — If you like tinkering with consoles and shoe-horning Go into new (or old?) environments, this post is for you. It involves TinyGo, C, and a lot of trial and error.

How and Why PlanetScale Built a VM in Go — PlanetScale is a well known cloud based MySQL host that uses the Go-powered Vitess MySQL scaler. This article covers the tale of building a virtual machine in Go to work with the SQL ASTs produced by their SQL parser and how it’s as fast (or sometimes faster) as MySQL’s own C++ approach.

The Right Way to Do Data Fixtures in Go — If you don’t have a strategy for data fixtures from the start, problems can show up in ways that make testing brittle. Here are some tips to get started on the right foot and prevent the need to fix your fixtures later.

golangci-lint v2: A Fast Linter Runner for Go — A tool for running Go code linters (about 100 of them!), quickly, in parallel, with caching, YAML configuration, IDE integration, and more. There are some helpful migration instructions if you’re upgrading from v1.

Goavatar: Generate Unique, Symmetric Identicons Based on a String — Given a string (like a username, say), this generates very basic icons in a deterministic way that you could use for a little added visual recognition.

Physix.go: A Simple Physics Engine for Go — An interesting project from a high school student (who explains the background to this project here) providing basic physics capabilities when using Ebitengine.

gocodewalker: A Way to 'Walk' Directories of Code — If you want to walk through a nested set of directories in a code repo while respecting .gitignore, this is for you.

go-profile: A Port of Brendan Gregg's eBPF profile.py — eBPF opens up a way to do profiling in a faster, more direct way on Linux (details here) and this is an initial incomplete attempt to port a Python-powered eBPF profiler to Go.

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