Generating Go boilerplate from OpenAPI specs

#​509 — June 4, 2024

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Don't Name Packages Common Nouns — The potential to collide with simple, everyday words you might want to use as variable names is too great.

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A Long-Overdue Problem Coming for Some in Go 1.23 — Go's compiler has special directives to let you do various things including, in the case of go:linkname, accessing unexported variables/functions from other packages. This has never been a guaranteed, safe feature, but changes to its operation in 1.23 could cause issues for more than a few packages.. (If you want to know why a library might not allow access to certain things by default, Chris covers that here.)

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Running Go on Val Town — Val Town is an interesting platform for running and composing JavaScript snippets that makes the claim: “If GitHub Gists could run, and AWS Lambda was fun.” Can you run Go on it? Thanks to WebAssembly, yes, but it’s more a fun experiment than a long-term play.

Max McDonnell

Abusing Go's Infrastructure? — Upon discovering that repositories containing zero Go code were in Go’s checksum DB, the author set out to see if arbitrary data could be uploaded to Go’s servers and, if so, whether it’s really a serious issue or not.

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[Webinar] Saga Pattern: Compensating Transactions at Will Bank — Hear Will Bank discuss financial transaction challenges and how Temporal's durable execution ensures reliable consistency.

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📄 A Look at Go Alternatives to Makefiles – Taskfile and Mage, specifically. Elton Minetto

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🛠 Code & Tools

gh-dash 4.0: A GitHub CLI Dashboard Extension — A TUI app for displaying a dashboard of pull requests and issues filtered however you like.

Dolev Hadar

oapi-codegen 2.2: Generate Boilerplate from OpenAPI 3 Specs — Convert OpenAPI specifications to Go code for server implementations, clients, or HTTP models. v2.2 now supports Go 1.22 and its new routing enhancements, much of the docs have been rewritten, and the project is focusing on ways to be more sustainable into the future.

DeepMap, Inc

Bob: SQL Query Builder and ORM/Factory Generator — With support for Postgres, MySQL and SQLite. Bob can be progressively adopted from raw SQL query strings, to fully typed queries with models and factories generated for a database.

Stephen Afam-Osemene

Rill: A Go Concurrency Toolkit — A collection of functions for streaming, parallel processing, and pipeline construction – all aiming to abstract things nicely and reduce boilerplate.

Viktor Nikolaiev

Bubble Table: A Table Component for Bubble Tea — A customizable, interactive table component for the always elegant Bubble Tea TUI framework.

Brandon Fulljames

go-datastructures 1.1.5: Numerous Threadsafe Data Structures — There’s a lot packed in here: queues, heaps, trees, sets, tries, skiplists, graphs, and often multiple types of each.

Workiva

gcss: CSS Written in Pure Go? — The touted benefits include more maintainable CSS and HTML (with no more super long class attributes) along with simpler server-side theming.

Accent Design

⚙︎ Fusion – A lightweight, self-hosted RSS aggregator and reader, with Svelte in the front, G