#170: Should Go 2.0 Support Generics?

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Go Newsletter Issue 170 — July 27, 2017

Featured Go 1.9 Release Candidate 1 Released Progress towards a final release continues. There are draft release notes if you want to keep up to date with new features. Chris Broadfoot Should Go 2.0 Support Generics? One of Go’s most recognized users chimes in on the debate with the two choices that the core team has in regard to its biggest issue. Dave Cheney Gophercon 2017 Talk Slides, Links and Videos The largest Go conference took place in Denver two weeks ago and this is the link you need if you want to dig deep into the talks. GopherCon Make it easy for your IT manager to say yes with ActiveGo The world's only commercially supported Go distribution for Linux, MacOS and Windows. Try it for Free. ActiveState   sponsored  The Future of Go   video  The process of evolving Go, through experience reports, and how it worked for issues like type aliases and other changes to the language. Russ Cox How Many Go Developers Are There? Between half a million and a million, perhaps. Russ Cox Six Go Tips You Should Probably Not Use A bit of fun, this. You probably shouldn’t use Unicode for everything, monkey patch the language, and four other gems. Ralph Carmichael The Future of Latency Profiling in Go Go lacks some of the instrumentation capability of other languages and there is an effort to start discussing solutions underway. Jaana B.​ Dogan Jobs VP of Engineering (f/m) Our goal is to eliminate fraud and increase our customers' profits. We’ve invented an A.I technology to combine accuracy with scalability. Fraugster Ltd Relax and Let Job Offers Come to You. Sign Up Today on Hired Save time on your job search. Hired delivers multiple, high-quality job offers to you. Sign up today. Hired In Brief A New Go Book from O'Reilly: 'Concurrency in Go'   news  Recently sent to print. Katherine Cox-Buday [eBook] The Ultimate Guide to Building Database-Driven Apps with Go This book contains years of wisdom from experts & the fastest way to learn how to connect to a database with Go. VividCortex   sponsored  A Detailed Tutorial on Channels in Go   tutorial  Golangbot Adapting Functions in Go   tutorial  It’s possible to use closures to adapt a function to your argument (or other) requirements. Nate Finch Building a RESTful API with Go   tutorial  Francis Sunday Be Careful of This Slices 'Gotcha' When Using 'append'   tutorial  There is a little-known (yet fully documented) side effect of using append that can overwrite your data and be hard to find. Allegro Tech Blog Interacting with Ethereum Smart Contracts Using Go   tutorial  Mario Zupan A Look at Go 'Anti-Patterns'   video  A quest to define “idiomatic” Go by looking at several anti-patterns. Edward Muller Writing a Go Tool to Parse and Modify Struct Tags   video  Fatih Arslan Subtle Issues with ORMs, and How to Avoid Them   opinion  Some folks think ORMs are the root of much evil, but here are some ways to use them for great good. Jon Calhoun Are We There Yet? The Go Generics Debate   opinion  A discussion on the generics fork in the road and opinion that generics is simpler than Go’s current options. Tyler Treat Minimock: A Powerful Mock Generation Tool   tools  Juno Inc.​ Get real-time custom metrics from your Go apps Instrument your Go apps in a few lines of code to start graphing metrics and setting up alerts in minutes. Datadog   sponsored  Boutique: Immutable Data Storage   code  Supports middleware and subscription to field-level changes. John Doak go-css-parser: A Very Simple CSS Parser   code  Luka Napotnik Gentleman: Plugin-Driven, Middleware-Oriented HTTP Client Toolkit   code  Tomás Aparicio pargo: A Library for Parallel Programming in Go   code  ExaScience Go Newsletter is curated by Peter Cooper and Glenn Goodrich Read this issue on the Web See our archives Change your email address Stop getting this newsletter Published by Cooperpress Fairfield Enterprise Centre, Lincoln Way, Louth, LN11 0LS, UK