Issue #197: #197: The State of Go 1.10 — Go Weekly

Golang Weekly 197

Issue 197 — February 8, 2018

Featured

Go 1.8.7, 1.9.4, and 1.10rc2 Released Due to Security Issue

“By using the clang or gcc plugin mechanism, it was possible for an attacker to trick the “go get” command into executing arbitrary code.”

Andrew Bonventre

The State of Go 1.10 video

A 24 minute overview of what’s coming up with Go 1.10 given at the Go Devroom at FOSDEM. No time for a video? The slides are here.

Francesc Campoy

Performance Monitoring for Go, Java, Ruby, and Python Apps

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Datadog sponsored

A Look at Go Framework Popularity

An analytical look at 20 different web and microservice frameworks based on stars, commits, issues, and more. Can you guess what won?

RedMonk

A Guide to Writing Dockerfiles for Go Webapps

Incrementally building a basic Dockerfile with live reloading and package management which is then optimized for production with a 100x reduction in size.

Shahidh K Muhammed

Extending GopherJS

A thorough dive into how GopherJS (a Go to Javascript compiler) works and how to extend it with some real-world, browser situations.

Caleb Doxsey

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In Brief

A Comprehensive Guide to Publishing Go Libraries tutorial

Covers dependencies, docs, tests, CI, and licensing.

Dara Hayes

Simply Scale Go-libvirt with Code Generation on DigitalOcean tutorial

Use code generation to extend libvirt’s extensive API without leaving the comfortable environment of Go.

DigitalOcean sponsored

Instrumenting a Go Service for Prometheus tutorial