#172: Should 'Context' Go Away in Go 2?

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Go Newsletter Issue 172 — August 10, 2017

Featured Typed 'nil's in Go 2 Dave gives you some code to think about before considering the future for typed nils in Go 2. Dave Cheney Context Should Go Away for Go 2 Why 'Context' is bad (“like a virus”?), the good things it does, and how Go 2 could make it all better. Michal Štrba memguard: Extra Memory Security in Go memguard is a pure Go library for handling sensitive values in memory. It uses syscalls, a canary value, and wipes memory when freed to increase security. Awn Umar ActiveGo -The world’s only commercially supported Go distribution Satisfy your company’s requirements for commercial support, security and license compliance with ActiveGo for Linux, MacOS, and Windows. Try the Community Edition for free. ActiveState   sponsored  Pitfalls of Context Values and How to Avoid or Mitigate Them in Go Why using context values can become problematic, some alternative approaches that don’t use context values and when they are appropriate. Jon Calhoun Always Be Closing: The Tale of a Resource Leak The process and tools used to track down a subtle resource leak and the resultant simple fix. Square Excelize: Go Library for Reading and Writing Excel Documents Want to write or read Excel spreadsheets from Go? This is what you need. Jobs Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure Backend We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer with a strong interest in building, deploying, and operating back-end tools and services that process enormous quantities of data in performant ways. New Relic Want to Build The Future? Get Hired Today. Save time on your job search. Hired delivers multiple, high-quality job offers to you. Sign up today. Hired In Brief Go 1.9 Release Candidate 2 Released   news  google.​com dotGo: The European Go Conference (Paris, November 6)   news  Sam Boyer and Jess Frazelle join the line up of speakers for this year’s conference. dotConferences Goroutines Make Concurrency (Almost) Easy   tutorial  Treehouse How to Inject Build-Time Variables into Your Binaries   tutorial  Alex Ellis Hacking Go Interfaces from the Inside Out   tutorial  How would you define an interface for a Logging API if you started from inside Logger? Charles Francoise Go Slices Are Not Dynamic Arrays   tutorial  Applied Go Easy Middleware without External Packages in Go   tutorial  Kevin Burns Accessing AWS with the Go SDK   tutorial  Vidsey Blog How to Sell Your Team on CI/CD   tutorial  A step-by-step guide to updating legacy processes in your org. CircleCI   sponsored  A Farewell To Go: Why One Developer Is Leaving   opinion  Lukas Schörghuber Hexya: An ERP and Business Application Development Framework   tools  Hexya vim-go 1.14 Released: The Go Plugin for vim   tools  Fatih Arslan [eBook] The Ultimate Guide to Building Database-Driven Apps with Go This book contains years of wisdom from experts and the fastest way to learn how to connect to a database with Go. VividCortex   sponsored  SmartCrop: A Pure Go Smart Image Cropper   code  Finds good image crops for arbitrary crop sizes. Christian Muehlhaeuser ipd: IP Address Lookup Service   code  The code that powers ifconfig.co. Martin Polden vlan-nats: Create a Virtual LAN Using NATS   code  RapidLoop 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