Should the Go toolchain collect usage data?

Plus using profiling to optimize the Go compiler, Go's famous fan, and getting down to the bits and bytes. |

#447 — February 10, 2023

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An Introduction to Go's Profile-Guided Optimization — What if the Go compiler could improve how it compiles software based upon real-world profiling? Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) feeds runtime profiles to the compiler to optimize the binary based on usage. Go 1.20 includes initial support for this, so try this with your apps and (hopefully) see some perf gains.

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Transparent Telemetry for Open Source Projects — It's an emotive topic, but Russ puts forth a concept of ‘transparent telemetry’, a privacy-sensitive approach to gathering usage data in the Go toolchain to help Go library devs, the core team, and others. There’s a lot to unpack and there's a a GitHub discussion where you can have your own say (as things stand it has 144 👍 and 449 👎…)

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Russ also has a use cases post which might help win you over or at least realize there are things that surveys alone cannot capture. He makes a compelling case.

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Building Conc: Better Structured Concurrency for Go — A month ago we featured Conc, a new set of abstractions for working with concurrency in Go, and now its author gives the full backstory and explains where it fits in.

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IN BRIEF:

In a recent interview with John Ousterhout, the creator of Tcl, he called Go 'the last interesting new language I can think of.'
How much can you get out of a $4/mo VPS? Quite a lot, especially if you're using Go.
Filippo Valsorda is well known for his work on the Go team, particularly in the area of cryptography, and he's written a fascinating post about how he's become a full-time open source maintainer.

Fast and Dynamic Encoding of Protocol Buffers — Protocol Buffers (a.k.a. protobuf) provide one common language-neutral way to serialize data structures. This post looks at the fastest way to create them dynamically in Go without proto files.

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Working at the Bit Level in Go — A lot of developers will never need to work at the bit level, but this is very useful stuff to at least know about.

Daniel Lemire

User or *User - Do We Need Struct Pointers Everywhere? — The answer, as you might’ve guessed, is “no.” But, it’s also more nuanced due to the lifetime of a struct, its usage, and other aspects that boil this down to general guidelines and case-by-case analysis.

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Plumber 2.0: A 'Swiss Army Knife' CLI Tool for Messaging Systems — Event streaming and pub/sub systems, more particularly, including Kafka, RabbitMQ, Google Cloud Platform PubSub, MQTT, Kinesis Streams, SQS, SNS, NATS, and more.

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Goption: Optional Values for Go — An implementation of a generic optional type that supports common encoders/decoders, SQL, and stdlib string formatting.

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🔠 Go's not just a language..

It's also a typeface! You may or may not recall that back in 2016, the Go team announced the release of the Go fonts, available in both proportional and monospace variants.

If you want to give them a Go for yourself, they're located alongside Go's image libraries and you can get them like so:

    git clone https://go.googlesource.com/image
    

The TTF files are then located at: image/font/gofont/ttfs

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