Issue 403 - An alternative Go playground (17)

GoPlay: A Better Go Playground? — Powered by React and the Monaco editor control behind VS Code, the “better” here includes a dark theme, autocompletion, a ton of loadable snippets, file loading/saving, and WASM support. There’s also a Docker image so you can have a private playground of your own and tell those kids to get off your lawn.

Isolating Problematic Cgo Code — This is a wonderfully explained tutorial on using parent-child processes to create, pass, and monitor file descriptors for memory- and CPU-intensive work.

Understand a Complex Codebase in Minutes, Not Weeks — Decrease time to first commit with self-serve onboarding, codebase exploration, and knowledge sharing. Improve dev velocity by making it easy to search and find code and context.

Shell Scripting with Go — John has created a script library that brings all the pipeline utility goodness into Go so you can create and deploy binaries instead of maintaining traditional Unix scripts (if you prefer).

▶  Discussing Logging in Go with Ed Welch — Ed works on the Go-powered Grafana Loki log aggregation system so knows a fair bit about the topic. (1 hour 8 minutes.)

Rewriting Bash Scripts in Go using Black Box Testing — When rewriting software in a new language, how do you test that your new and old programs do the same thing? Here’s how one engineer approached it.

▶  Making a Wordle Clone with Go and Ebiten — Making a word game that runs in the terminal is one thing, but how about an all singing, all dancing graphical version? Ebiten to the rescue.

Looking at pix: A Minimalistic Graphic Library — This library is oriented towards embedded and simple LCD and OLED display controller usage, rather than on the desktop. Some neat examples here and the code is very easy to follow.

termsvg: A Terminal to SVG Recording CLI Tool — The output from something like this can be much more efficient for demos in your GitHub READMEs than traditional animated GIFs.

go-rabbitmq: A High(er)-Level RabbitMQ Client for Go — The official AMQP library from the RabbitMQ team is good, but what if you need a bit more like reconnection logic, boilerplate, flow control..? Enter go-rabbitmq.

Tygo: Generate TypeScript Types from Go Source Code — The idea is that you can create types for the front-end based on those used by your Go powered backend by parsing the code that’s actually there. TypeScriptify is another option in this space which uses reflection instead.

Dasel: Query and Update Data Structures from the Command Line — Think of jq, but for many more formats, such as JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, and CSV. Can be used as a CLI tool or as a Go package.

AWS Vault: A Vault for Securely Storing and Accessing AWS Credentials in Development — Stores IAM credentials in your OS’s keystore and then generates temporary credentials from those to expose to your shell and apps.

fakegen: Single Binary CLI for Generating a Random Schema of M Columns to Populate N Rows of Data — Easy, quick, fake JSON data.

httpx 1.2: A Multi-Purpose HTTP Toolkit for Probing Servers — A command line tool, written in Go, for running numerous HTTP ‘probers’ at the same time using the retryablehttp library under the hood.

Dynamo: An Expressive Amazon DynamoDB Library — Integrates with the official AWS SDK but gives you a tidier abstraction.