Tag go

Last week AWS published a blog post advising that the go1.x Lambda runtime will be deprecated and people should migrate to provided.al2. I was already using the newer runtime, but I also learned from the blog post that AWS SAM can now build Go Lambda functions for the newer runtime - no more Makefiles required!

Announcing golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gonew, an experimental tool for starting new Go projects from predefined templates

Go 1.21 has some awesome new functionality that improves the developer experience and performance.

A beautiful program to read your RSS/Atom feeds right in the terminal! - GitHub - TypicalAM/goread: A beautiful program to read your RSS/Atom feeds right in the terminal!

An elegant way of combining test transactions with Go’s built-in test abstractions.

Learn about the upcoming go1.21 performance improvements that reduce the overhead of execution tracing from up to 20% to less than 1% for most applications.

Go bindings to SQLite using Wazero. Contribute to ncruces/go-sqlite3 development by creating an account on GitHub.

A tool to show what AWS account and identity you're using. - GitHub - benkehoe/aws-whoami-golang: A tool to show what AWS account and identity you're using.

A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go - GitHub - urfave/cli: A simple, fast, and fun package for building command line apps in Go

Go subcommand library. Contribute to google/subcommands development by creating an account on GitHub.

Importable package that parses version info from debug.ReadBuildInfo(). - GitHub - carlmjohnson/versioninfo: Importable package that parses version info from debug.ReadBuildInfo().

Upgrading a Go project from pgx v4 to v5, and more specifically, from sqlc&rsquo;s <code>pgx/v4</code> to <code>pgx/v5</code> driver (the hard part).

📖 100 Go Mistakes and How to Avoid Them. Contribute to teivah/100-go-mistakes development by creating an account on GitHub.

Made by a minimal, responsible and friendly person.

Touring the ORM and Postgres landscape in Go, and why sqlc is today&rsquo;s top pick.

Generates Go (golang) Structs from JSON schema. Contribute to elastic/go-json-schema-generate development by creating an account on GitHub.

Extension handlers for the slog library. Contribute to galecore/xslog development by creating an account on GitHub.

The difference between nil and empty slices are a common point of confusion for newbies to Go. This post discusses how they differ and when to use each one.

🌈 slog.Handler that writes tinted logs. Contribute to lmittmann/tint development by creating an account on GitHub.

TIL that Go Lambda functions now have a nice way to perform cleanup without ugly workarounds.

Aidan W Steele (@__steele)Wed, 29 Mar 2023 06:28 +0000

Who is going to build it?

What I learned by proposing and implementing a new feature in the Go standard library.

Say goodbye to preemptive interfaces

Today, we're excited to announce ngrok-go, our idiomatic Go package for embedding secure ingress directly into your Go applications. If you’ve used ngrok before, you can think of ngrok-go as the ngrok agent packaged as a Go library.

A hot take.