🎄 A mixed bag this week as we cover a few news items but then get into a 2024 roundup of Go news and the most clicked items of the year, in case you missed them at the time.
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Go Protobuf and the New Opaque API — The existing protobuf module is here to stay, but now we get an additional API that provides a more loosely coupled abstraction for working with protobufs without being tied to their underlying in-memory representations. The benefits? Memory efficiency, lazy decoding, and fewer opportunities for bugs.
Michael Stapelberg
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Benchmarking Different Go SQLite Drivers (Again) — An update of a benchmark we first linked a year ago. As with any benchmark results, maintain a critical eye here, but the author found significant differences between the now eight options (previously seven).
Christoph Vilsmeier
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QUICK RELEASES:
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GoReleaser v2.5 – The popular tool to build and distribute Go programs for multiple platforms now supports Rust and Zig too.
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easyjson 0.8 – Marshal/unmarshal structs to/from JSON sans reflection.
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Chi 5.2 – Composable router for Go HTTP services.
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gopls v0.17 – Official Go language server.
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🥇 Top Go Developments and Items of 2024 |
2024 was, as always, a good year for Go, but there were some highlights:
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Next, what did you click on most this year? Let's find out!
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1. Cogent Core: A New GUI Framework for Go — I was surprised this was by far the most clicked link as news tends to trump frameworks/libraries. Cogent is a “code once, run everywhere” GUI framework aiming to be simpler than Gio and more powerful than Fyne. Cogent’s site itself is built with the framework and compiled to WASM to run on the Web. It remains under active development.
Kai O'Reilly and Randy O'Reilly
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2. What's Coming in Go 1.24 — A very recent post with a slide deck teasing what's coming in Go 1.24 early next year. It goes through language, tooling, and standard library changes and some of the more experimental parts. The video of this talk still remains to be released, sadly.
Daniel Martí
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4. Rust vs Go in 2024? — A perennially popular post from yesteryear was tweaked for 2024 with a comparison of the ‘both awesome’ languages including what they’re both good at, their key differences, and some trade-offs to consider. More recently, however, John has asserted that Rust and Go are better off together than apart.
John Arundel
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