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Sonic: A Newly Open Sourced Low Latency Network and I/O Library — Not to be confused with the eponymous blogging tool or JSON library, this Sonic is an asynchronous network and I/O library for Go, newly open sourced by a company specializing in trading infrastructure. “Sonic is an alternative to the net package. It removes the need to use multiple goroutines to handle multiple connections...

How Dolt Uses GitHub Actions to Create Performance-Guided Optimization Builds — A look behind the scenes at Dolt's build process and how their team has introduced profile-guided optimization (PGO) into theie pipeline. There’s some complexity, but ready-to-deploy performance-tuned binaries are a powerful reward.

From Zero to Production: Go's Journey at Google — The author worked as an SRE at Google for nine years and shares some of the story of how he saw Go grow and be adopted there over its formative years. Some interesting background that I’ve not seen mentioned elsewhere.

What’s New in Go 1.22: cmp.Or — cmp.Or (the ‘hidden gem of 1.22’, you might say) is a function that returns the first of the passed-in values that’s not the type’s zero value – a handy way to shorten certain conditional assignments. The last in a series covering the author’s own contributions to 1.22.

How Render Enforces Access Controls with Go Generics — Render is a modern hosting and deployment platform with a role system for users and admins to have specified, defined privileges. Their engineers wanted to get compile-time guarantees in their Go codebase to reduce the chance of dangerous flaws and loopholes getting into their role system.

makefile-graph: Turn a Makefile into a Graph — Usable as both a library and CLI tool, this parses makefiles and generates graphs representing the relationships between the various targets (then rendered by Graphviz's dot).

elem-go: A Type-Safe Way to Create and Manipulate HTML Elements — Easily create HTML elements with Go code and work with elements, attributes and properties in a type-safe way. v0.25.0 introduces a new StyleManager feature for managing CSS styles programatically too – check out the examples.

go-size-analyzer: Analyze the Size of Dependencies in Compiled Go Binaries — If analyzing your Makefiles (above) isn’t tempting enough, how about analyzing your compiled Go binaries? See where all of those bytes are going.

💎 Gemfast: A Drop-In 'Gem' Server for Ruby Developers — A new self-hosted Rubygems (Ruby’s package management system) server, written in Go for easier deployment, that lets Rubyists mirror and cache gems from official registries, as well as serve up their own private gems.

Opengist: A Self-Hosted Pastebin App — A Git-powered Gist-like pastebin app with more features than you might expect. Here’s a live demo – it certainly looks very GitHubby.

Muffet: A Fast, Recursive Website Link Checker — A CLI tool for scraping and inspecting pages across a site recursively.

spark-connect-go: Apache Spark Connect Client for Go — A ‘highly experimental’ Spark Connect for Apache Spark client for Go.

Redka: Redis Re-Implemented with SQLite — It’s not often you see a Go project get so many GitHub stars in just a few days, but after the latest Redis licensing debacle, there’s an appetite for alternative approaches.

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.

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.

▶  Discussing Debugging in Go — In the latest Go Time episode, Matt Boyle, Bill Kennedy and Jon Calhoun discuss debugging techniques. Bill explains why he doesn’t like his developers to use the debugger, and how he prefers to only use techniques available in production.

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

▶  Pointers for Performance? — Does returning a pointer from a function instead of a value improve performance in Go? (3 minutes.)

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.

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.

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

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.

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.