Issue #128: Go Newsletter Issue #128 — Go Weekly

A Walkthrough of Go's 'fmt' Package tutorial

Ben Johnson’s latest package walkthrough, this time focusing on fmt which provides ways to format output, interpolate variables into strings, and more.

Ben Johnson

Gallium: Build Desktop Apps with Go and HTML tools

It’s early days and OS X only for now, but this is a Go library for managing windows, menus, dock icons, desktop notifications, while providing a Chromium webview component.

Alex Flint

Dropping Down Go Functions in Assembly video

In 28 minutes, learn to write Go functions in assembly: covers the basics such as syntax, function arguments and stack management.

Michael Munday

Free eBook: Automate your Development Workflow with Docker

Learn how to use Docker to solve the problems of inconsistent environments on varying deployment targets and how to build an app to run inside an isolated Docker Container.

Codeship sponsored

Run Fast Parallel File Searches with sync.ErrGroup tutorial

Go’s new sync.ErrGroup package can significantly improve developer productivity with goroutines.

Brian Ketelsen

cgogen: Automatic Go Bindings Generator tools

Provides a way to quickly incorporate C libraries into your Go projects using cgo.

Maxim Kupriianov

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Steve Francia Joining the Go Team at Google news

He comes from MongoDB & Docker and wants help to steer the Go ecosystem in the right direction.

Steve Francia

The Go Workbench Idea news

A conceptual ‘onboarding’ process for introducing new users on how best to use Go.

Andrew Gerrand

Connecting R and Compose PostgreSQL tutorial

Learn how to connect R, the language used by data scientists and statisticians, to PostgreSQL with RPostgreSQL and RPostgres.

Compose sponsored

Docker + Golang = Love tutorial

A short collection of tips and tricks showing how Docker can be useful when working with Go code.

Jérôme Petazzoni

Making Tor HTTP Requests with Go tutorial

DevDungeon

Passing Channels over Channels tutorial

Aaron Schlesinger

How to Very Easily Dockerize Your Go App tutorial

Travis Reeder

For Go Builtins, Nil and Empty Read The Same tutorial

Jack Lindamood

Utilizing the Go 1.7 SSA Compiler slidedeck

Klaus Post

What Is A Container, Really? video

Let’s write one in Go from scratch. 22 minutes.

Liz Rice

When Idioms Become Bottlenecks video

Filmed at this year’s Golang UK Conference 2016. 25 minutes.

Travis Bischel

Go 1.8 Performance Improvements, One Month In opinion

A brief look at the state of play, roughly half way into Go 1.8’s development cycle.

Dave Cheney

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Linode sponsored

Meet Moq: Easily Mock Interfaces in Go tools

Moq is an interface mocking tool for go generate.

Mat Ryer

melodyAPI: A Package Cache for Go tools

A rough draft of an idea to see if it resonates with Go developers.

Xiaoying Riley

Gorgonia: A Library To Facilitate Machine Learning in Go code

Gorgonia is a library similar to Theano or TensorFlow, but in Go. Here’s the accompanying blog post.

Xuanyi Chew

EliasDB: A No Dependencies Graph Database Written in Go code

Exposes a REST API.

Matthias Ladkau

sql2xlsx: Convert SQL Rows Into Microsoft Excel Files code

Bruce Marrin