Golang Weekly - Go quirks and intermediate tricks

Purego: A Dynamic Way to Call C Functions from Go Without Cgo — No C means you can build for other platforms easily without a target C compiler/toolchain. No wrapper functions either. One of the contributors noted on HN: "It uses the same mechanisms that Cgo does to switch to the system stack and then call the C code. Purego just avoids having to need a C toolchain to cross compile code that calls into C from Go."

Ebitengine

Go Quirks and Intermediate Tricks — This isn’t the best formatted post, but you might pick up a few things from this list (which, handily, has code examples for each item).

Efron Licht

Free from O’Reilly: Build Resilient Apps in Go — Learn to build cloud-native, cost-effective, and fault-tolerant applications in this 3-chapter excerpt from O’Reilly’s Cloud Native Go.

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Rust vs Go in 2023 — A 2023-flavored update to a popular article first released in 2020. John is a fan of both Rust and Go and takes a careful look at where each independently makes the most sense.

John Arundel

🗣 Go May Add Telemetry Reporting That's On by Default — We featured the initial discussion behind this last week, but The Register has decided to run with the story and digested the public opinion a little more. Issues around ‘phoning home’ and privacy are always going to be fierce, but the intent, at least, appears to be good and as Nate Finch says “It’s just Go developers wanting to know how people use their software, so they can make it better. For you. For me. For all of us.”

The Register

Structured Logging with slog — There is a language proposal to add slog to the standard library (GitHub discussion here.) slog has the basic features you’d expect. Still, not everyone is wild about how it handles attributes and custom loggers.

Karan Sharma

Building a URL Shortener using Go, SQLite and GORM — GORM is an ORM library for Go.

Pratim Bhosale

go-pretty: Pretty Print Tables, Lists and Text on the Terminal — Utilities to prettify console output of tables, lists, progress-bars, text, etc. with a heavy emphasis on customization.

Naveen Mahalingam

gofumpt: A Stricter gofmt — You like rules? gofmt not strict enough? gofumpt has even stricter rules to keep your codebase clean and behaving.

Daniel Martí

Connect to Your Cloud Resources with Tailscale — Spend more time coding and less time troubleshooting with Tailscale. Now you can connect directly to cloud resources, containers, or VMs like they’re on your local network.

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Go-Redis Now an Official Redis Client — A couple of weeks ago we mentioned Go-Redis v9 and how it had moved under the official Redis organization – now we get the full story.

Igor Malinovskyi

TinyGlobo: The TinyGo Powered Long Distance Balloon — It seems you don’t need to be a nation state agency to get in on the UFO action nowadays – you could just be a Go developer! Featuring a RP2040 programmed with TinyGo, this balloon sent back data using LoRaWAN long-range radio. ▶️ Here’s a video of the fun.

Ron Evans