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Issue 188 — November 23, 2017

A slightly shorter than usual issue today in respect of Thanksgiving. We hope you have a good one if you celebrate it.

Featured

Please Take The 2017 Go User Survey

The official Go team are very keen for all Go users to take the annual Go user survey to help them plan & organize the project. Let’s get them above the 3500 responses they got last year?

The Go Team

The Draft Go 1.10 Release Notes

Go 1.10 is set for a February 2018 release, but the release notes are already in progress if you want to see what will be new.

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On the Behavior of Channels video

At dotGo 2017, prolific Go trainer Bill Kennedy presented a brief, 12 minute talk on how and why to think of Go channels as signalling mechanisms.

Bill Kennedy

gofpdf: Generate PDFs from Go with No Dependencies

A PDF document generator with high level support for text, drawing and images, bookmarks, links, and more.

Kurt Jung

Puffs: A DSL for Parsing Untrusted File Formats Safely in C

A DSL and library (all written in Go) for parsing untrusted file formats (images, video, etc) that compiles to safe C code.

Google

In Brief

Deploying an SPA as a Go Binary Using Webpack and Statik tutorial