Golang Weekly - Go 1 turns twelve

Freeze: Generate Images of Code and Terminal Output — From the purveyors of fine Go-powered libraries and CLI tools like Bubble Tea, Huh and Wish comes Freeze, a fresh way to create images of code and/or terminal output in PNG, SVG or WebP format.

Charm

Building an Interactive Shell in Go — From the folks working on the Dolt database (which includes a CLI to take SQL queries and feed them to the database) comes a guide to creating a CLI that’s intuitive and includes features like command history and autocompletion. ishell is their library of choice.

Zach Musgrave (DoltHub)

Go! Unlock Your Tech Potential with Ardan Labs Consulting — Struggling with skill gaps, development speed or complex tech challenges? Ardan Labs specializes in Go, Rust, Docker and K8s to accelerate your software development, optimize architecture, and manage tech debt. Let us supercharge your team!

Ardan Labs Consulting sponsor

Brute Force Text Search Optimizations — If you’ve got a lot of textual data in memory, performing a brute force search upon it can be surprisingly quick nowadays, particularly with some optimizations..

Ben E. C. Boyter

Optimizing SQLite for Servers — Developers are increasingly realizing SQLite can scale a long way and can handle many use cases for which more complex systems are often used. Sylvain goes deep into getting the best out of it.

Sylvain Kerkour

Building a Blog in Go: Rendering Markdown as HTML — An ongoing series to build a simple blog system using Go.

Jon Calhoun

LangChain Go: A Go Port/Fork of LangChain for LLM Apps — LangChain is a popular framework (most commonly associated with Python) for developing language model powered apps. LangChain Go reimplements the same concepts in Go. GitHub repo.

Travis Cline et al.

Excelize: Library for Working with Excel Spreadsheets — Read and write XLAM / XLSM / XLSX / XLTM / and XLTX files. A long time library that keeps going from strength to strength. GitHub repo.

QI-ANXIN GROUP

Hookdeck: The Amazon EventBridge Alternative — Receive, transform, filter, route, and send messages across your EDA with an event gateway for engineering teams.

Hookdeck sponsor

Ebitengine 2.7 Released: The 2D Game Engine for Go — The new feature this time is text/v2, an all new text rendering package that offers improved support for Arabic and vertically-rendered Japanese, glyph vectorization, more text alignment options, and improved OpenType support.

Hajime Hoshi

Beego 2.2: Backend Framework for RESTful APIs and Webapps — Inspired by Tornado, Sinatra and Flask. v2.2.0 bumps the Go version to 1.20.

beego Framework