Golang Weekly - Let's get optimizing

Profile-Guided Optimization (PGO) in Go 1.21 — PGO has been a popular topic for blog posts recently, but here’s an as-close-to-official-as-it-gets example of using it to improve code, including deeper dives into two major optimizations enabled by the process. If nothing else convinces you to give it a shot, consider this: “In Go 1.21, workloads typically get between 2% and 7% CPU usage improvements from enabling PGO.”

Michael Pratt (The Go Team)

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Scaling gopls for the Growing Go Ecosystem — The official Go blog gives us two posts to sink our teeth into this week. This time, the spotlight shines on the gopls Go language server used by a variety of IDEs to enhance their Go support. This post looks at some recent advancements and speedups, and invites you to take this survey if you’re a gopls user.

Robert Findley and Alan Donovan

What I Have Changed My Mind About in Software Development — “Anybody who doesn’t change their mind a lot is dramatically underestimating the complexity of the world we live in.” – Jeff Bezos

Henrik Warne

Free Course: Temporal 102 with Go — Learn how to utilize the full development cycle in Temporal with this practical follow-up to our essentials 101 course.

Temporal Technologies sponsor

Wails 2.6: Create Desktop Apps with Go, JS and CSS — Ever been envious of JavaScript developers being able to use Electron to build desktop apps? Wails brings a similar option to Go. v2 is mature and solid, but Wails v3 is on the way and promises to be a big update. GitHub repo.

Lea Anthony

Goxygen 0.7: Quickly Generate a Go Backend for a JS Project — A tool that sets up a new Go-based project with Angular, React, or Vue in the front-end, and Docker and Docker Compose files to make it all work. v0.7 introduces Go 1.21 support.

Sasha Shpota

[Blog] How to Hack Kubernetes (And How to Protect It) — This roundup covers the top seven ways your cluster will likely be attacked and a corresponding countermeasure.

Teleport | goteleport.com sponsor

Participle 2.1: A Simple Parser Package — Aims to provide a straightforward and idiomatic way to define parsers in Go using a familiar approach of using struct field tags to define a grammar, so if you’ve used encoding/json before, you’re well on your way.

Alec Thomas

Lip Gloss 0.8: Style Definitions for Nice Terminal Layouts — Provides a ‘fluent’-style API for stylizing text output from your programs in an attractive way, as you'd expect being a Charm project.

Charm

Spotify 2.4.0: A Go Wrapper for the Spotify Web API — There are a variety of examples, but you can do all the obvious things like search for tracks, playlists, and control playing tracks.

Zac Bergquist

Enmime 1.0: MIME Encoding and Decoding Package — Focused on generating and parsing MIME encoded emails.

James Hillyerd