Issue 301 - Go 1.14 Released (19)

Shox: A Customizable, Terminal Status Bar — Rather experimental but works in an interesting way (it proxies output from your shell and adjusts ANSI drawing commands so it can remain on top).

Equality in Golang — There’s a lot here around methods like DeepEqual and packages like go-cmp. When comparing articles about equality, you might say this one has, um, no, um, equal…

Porting a Go-Based Face Detection Library to WASM: A Q&A with Endre Simo — Pigo is a face detection library that Endre Simo has ported to WebAssembly providing very simple and fast access to the webcam and face detection in a browser. Here’s the story.

esquery: An Idiomatic Go Query Builder for ElasticSearch — A library that makes it easier to use the official Go client for Elasticsearch by letting you write simpler, fluent code to represent queries.

sqlc: Generate Type Safe Go From SQL — sqlc supports a nice set of features, including transactions, array data types, and various migration tools.

gnark: A Fast Zero-Knowledge Proof Library — This is over my head mathematically speaking, but it sounds interesting!

Go 1.14 Released — The big news is modules are now considered truly ready for prime time (a.k.a. “production use”)! Beyond that, there are some minor feature additions and performance efficiencies. Upgrade today. (Here’s a 12 minute video from London Gophers on what’s new.)

The Zen of Go — A transcription of Dave’s GopherCon Israel 2020 that applies the Zen of Python to Go in an attempt to suss out Go’s engineering values. We featured the briefer list of principles a few weeks ago.

The Go 1.14 Release Notes — If you want to go deeper on the new 1.14 release, this is the place to be. The release notes tidily summarize all of the changes introduced since 1.13.

Early Impressions of Go from a Rust Programmer — This is a good and objective writeup. It’s interesting to hear from a Rust programmer who doesn’t think Go and Rust compete for the same use cases.

My Go Gotcha of the Day: Closing Over Loop Variables — Unless, of course, you want to ignore all but the last value in the collection.

Using Domain-Driven Design(DDD)in Go — Entities, Repositories, Values! Oh my! This complete tutorial covers those DDD concepts and more, including utilities and a Vue-based front end.

The Awesomeness of the httptest Package in Go — httptest is awesome and has more use cases than just straight automated unit tests.

Chime: A Future Go Editor for macOS — It’s in closed beta right now, but you may want to subscribe to their updates so you know when Chime is ready.

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