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Finding Bugs with Fuzzing — The final post in a series about fuzz testing in Go (you can start here) wraps things up with a practical example of finding and fixing a subtle bug in Go code using the process.

John Arundel

Some First Impressions of Go 1.21 — The impending 1.21 release feels more significant than other recent releases due to the items mentioned in this post, including new slice/map API functions (including many that take advantage of generics), structured logging, and the (experimental, opt-in only for now) tweak to loop variable capture.

Jason Fulghum (DoltHub)

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Wazero 1.3.0: WebAssembly Runtime for Go Developers — The goal here is being Go 1.21 ready (since it’s released next month). That’s important because Go 1.21 will directly support compiling to WASI-backed WASM which, in turn, Wazero will be able to run. Now we’re just waiting to see if Wazero can be compiled to WASM and run by itself.. 😅

Tetrate Labs

Pygolo: Extend Python with Go and Vice Versa — A new way to embed or extend the Python interpreter with Go. There’s a full guide to using it, but Pygolo does most of the heavy lifting taking care of types, modules, exceptions, and more.

Domenico Andreoli

Go Sync or Go Home: WaitGroup — What does WaitGroup have that channels don’t? (Quickly followed up with Go Sync or Go Home: ErrGroup.)

Yarden Laifenfeld

Workflows as Actors: Is It Really Possible? — Discover the Actor Model and its importance in system design patterns. Then, build Temporal Workflows that act like Actors in Go!

Temporal Technologies sponsor

Start Fast: Booting Go Programs Quickly — “A quick-booting program should be a source of pride,” says Efron, who really, really, really wants the binary serving his blog to spin up in milliseconds.

Efron Licht

ghw 0.12.0: Go Hardware Discovery and Inspection — Find out things about the memory, CPU, storage, network support, and similar things of the host computer. Focused on Linux and Windows, with partial macOS support.

Jay Pipes

Act: Run Your GitHub Actions Locally — Run act and it looks at your repo’s GitHub Actions, uses Docker to grab the necessary images, and runs the tasks locally.

Nektos

eBPF Go 0.11.0: Pure Go Library to Work with eBPF Programs — A library and toolchain that can let you write eBPF programs in assembly or C within your Go code, lets you link against various hooks, and more. Examples here.

Cilium

Add Fully-Featured Auth to Your Go App with Two Lines of Code — Easy, secure, and affordable: pick three. FusionAuth is auth built for devs, by devs.

FusionAuth sponsor

MacDriver 0.4: Native Mac API Access for Go — A toolkit for working with Apple/Mac APIs and frameworks in Go, formed of both bindings for Objective C and wrapped versions of certain frameworks.

Jeff Lindsay

The Ultimate Go Tour for Intermediate Developers — The folks at Arden Labs teach Go for a living, so this set of free tutorials (written atop the Go Playground) is a great start for experienced developers who want to learn Go.

Arden Labs