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Russ Cox Steps Down as Tech Lead of Go — Russ has been instrumental in many of Go’s developments having led the project for 12 years, but it’s time for a change with Austin Clements taking his position. But Russ isn’t leaving the Go world. Indeed, he's already deep into a new project (see next)..
Russ Cox
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Oscar: An Open-Source Contributor Agent Architecture — As Russ steps away as Go tech lead, he’s stepping into more work on Oscar, an AI agent system to help maintain open-source projects. The first bot, Gaby, is already up and running on Go’s issue tracker, with more to come.
Russ Cox
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Ardan Labs Consulting sponsor
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What's the Best Static Analysis Tool for Go? — Static analysis can be a valuable part of an app’s quality toolchain, run by both developers and pipelines. But there are many options, official and otherwise, so which to choose? The answer is (kinda) all of them…?
Nick Tobey (DoltHub)
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A 10 Week Go Backend Engineer Onboarding Plan — Stream has published the onboarding program they use for Go developers, which covers the basics of Go, databases, HTTP, and more. This is a great idea and sets expectations if you’re looking for work.
Stream
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Did You Know About Instruments? — Instruments is a macOS app that allows you to create various traces and profiles of running applications. It offers quite the toolset, as indicated by Thorsten’s palpable enthusiasm.
Thorsten Ball
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go-sqlbuilder: A Flexible SQL String Builder Library — Originally focused on MySQL and Postgres, it now supports SQL Server, SQLite, CQL, and more, too. Lets you use structs as a ‘light weight ORM’, and now also supports Common Table Expression and ILIKE.
Huan Du
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River 0.11 – Fast and reliable Postgres-powered background jobs for Go.
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env 11.2 – Zero dependency way to parse env variables into structs.
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Dgraph 24.0 - Native GraphQL database with a graph backend.
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🇯🇵 Kagome 2.10 – Japanese morphological analyzer.
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Resty 2.14 – Simple HTTP and REST client library.
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webdav 5.1 – Standalone WebDAV server.
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GoBGP 3.29 – BGP implementation in Go.
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