Issue 334 - An eleven year old proposal makes it into Go (20)

JuliaMono: A New Typeface for Scientific and Technical Users — There’s a lot to enjoy in this font originally created to be revealed at JuliaCon 2020 but now freely available for us to use and enjoy. It’s packed with useful mathematical symbols, alphabets, alternate characters, etc.

Structuring and Testing HTTP Handlers in Go — How to write your HTTP handlers so they are coherent and easy to test.

Cobra 1.1: A Framework for Building Modern CLI Apps — While it’s fun to shine the spotlight on new projects (like Bubble Tea, above) Cobra is certainly the ‘big cheese’ in the Go CLI space and is oriented more around structure, subcommand based CLIs, flags, generating man pages, etc. v1.1.0 just came out too.

Gohalt: A General Purpose Throttling Library — You could use this to build throttling pipelines, rate limiters, etc. We’re digging the gopher logo on this one.

go-password-validator: Password Strength Validator — “can be used to front a password strength meter, or simply validate password strength on the server.”

Bubble Tea: A Powerful Elm-Inspired TUI Framework — Based on the Elm architecture, this is aimed at interactive terminal applications. There’s also Bubbles which provides a few components (spinner, text input, paginator, viewport) to use in Bubble Tea apps.

▶  Introducing Your Team to Go — How and when should you introduce Go to your team? An episode all about how Go was introduced at different organizations, potential pitfalls and advice on convincing your team or CTO to give Go a go.

Proposal to Convert Slices to Array Pointers Accepted — The fun part here is Roger made the proposal 11 years ago and after due consideration it has been accepted (with slightly different syntax). So if you have an idea of how to make Go better, don’t give up 😜

▶  Building a Mapping Language in Go with Parser Combinators — ‘Bloblang’ is a basic data mapping language/DSL and here we get to see how to write a parser for it in Go.

A Web-Based Breakout Game Written in Pure Go — The link takes you straight into the game but it’s a neat piece of work and showcases the use of GWeb, a library for interacting with the browser from Go compiled to WebAssembly. The source for the Breakout game is also available to peruse.

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Fiber: An Express.js Inspired Web Framework for Go — If you know Express (from the Node world) than Fiber will look very familiar. It supports middleware, WebSockets, and various template engines, all while boasting a low memory footprint. Built on top of FastHTTP.

Sr. Software Engineer at CrowdStrike (Remote) — CrowdStrike is the leader in cloud-delivered endpoint protection, which helps protect our customers from cybersecurity attacks.

The Easiest Way to Run Redis — Better monitoring, seamless scaling, durable and portable Redis hosting supporting all the latest features.

SFTPGo: A Full Featured SFTP Server Built in Go — Supports password and public key auth, is database driven, includes a REST API for user and quota management, and more.

Benthos: A Resilient Stream Processor for 'Mundane Tasks' — Use this to connect together various sources and sinks (e.g. S3, DynamoDB, Elasticsearch, files, Kafka, Redis, and many more) and perform operations on the payloads. GitHub repo.

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