Issue #51: Go Newsletter Issue #51 — Go Weekly

Golang UK Conference (August 21 in London, UK)

It seems there’s a new Go conference on the scene this summer. There’s a call for speakers open until the end of May if you want to speak.

GolangUK.​com

The State of Go in 2015 with Andrew Gerrand podcast

Core team member Andrew Gerrand is featured in an 80 minute podcast interview with The Changelog talking about the state of Go and what’s coming in 1.5 and 1.6.

The Changelog

The first ops platform for developers

When an error happens, Opbeat will show you the code that is breaking, who wrote it, and how it is affecting performance. Experimental Go support. Go newsletter readers get 100ドル credit.

Opbeat sponsored

(Text) Interview with Go's Russ Cox and Sameer Ajmani

"The most important thing I learned is that a successful programming language is about far more than the language itself."

The PL Enthusiast

ASCII Table Writer: Generate ASCII-drawn Tables code

Quite flexible, automatically pads, supports multiple line entries, alignments, custom separators, and more. Ideal to present tabular info in a CLI situation.

Oleku Konko

Why Go’s Design Is A Disservice to Intelligent Programmers opinion

Very opinionated. Sparked much discussion on Hacker News. (Note: Inclusion is not endorsement.)

Gary Willoughby

GopherCon 2015 CFP Open till March 31 news

The conference itself takes place in Denver, CO over July 7-10.

GopherCon

Komodo 9 Released: A Cross-Platform IDE That Now Supports Go news

ActiveState

HTTPS and Go tutorial

Kai Hagelstein

Fulfilling A Pikedream: The Ups of Downs of Porting 50k Lines of C++ to Go opinion

logicchains

Dynamic HTTP Routing in Go with Travel code tutorial

Benjamen Keroack

go-bqstreamer: Stream Data Into Google BigQuery Quickly and Concurrently code

Rounds

Go-menu: Simple Interactive Command Line Menus code

turret.​io

Pastedown: An Open-Source, Self-Hosted Pastebin Server in Go code

Caleb Spare

Puzzl: An Sliding Puzzle Game for Your Terminal code

Pravendra Singh

Dedent: Remove Leading Whitespace From Multiline Strings code

Peter Renström

go-pry: A Pry-esque REPL for Go code

If you’ve used the powerful Pry Ruby REPL, go-pry aims to provide some of the same features to Go.

Tristan Rice

netbug: Provides A Handler for Registering Profilers On Your Own ServeMux code

Could be useful to folks who want to have remote profilers available on their live services, without being tied to the default servemux.

Edd Robinson

httpdiff: Performs Same Request Against 2 HTTP Servers and Diffs The Results code

John Graham-Cumming