Issue #52: Go Newsletter Issue #52 — Go Weekly

Go 1.5's 'To Do' List

"Go 1.5 code freeze is May 1, 2015; release is August 1, 2015. This is a list of things we’re hoping will be in Go 1.5 but are not yet done."

Google Docs

The 'Go-2' Project: An April Fool's Joke

Enjoy this April Fool’s joke with the benefit of hindsight. It describes a ‘Go 2’ extended subset of Go that adds new features and refines ‘confusing’ things in regular Go.

underlap.​blogspot.​com

hyflow-go: A Geo-Replicated Main-Memory Highly Consistent Datastore

An interesting research project from Virginia Tech’s Systems Software Research Group.

Virginia Tech

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The 2nd Go Challenge Has Been Set news

Guillaume J. Charmes has set an encryption themed challenge leaning on the NaCl library.

Go Challenge

TardisGo: A Proof of Concept Go to Haxe Compiler code

Provides the opportunity to reach C++, C#, Java and JavaScript as well since Haxe is designed to easily compile to those languages.

TARDIS Go

gobench: A Go Benchmark Competition

An environment in which Go developers can gain practical experience of writing fast code and exchange knowledge and know-how.

Keiji Yoshida

'Monkey Patching' in Go

Consider this an academic exercise for fun/as a cool hack. Don’t use these techniques in production unless you are feeling extremely brave.

Bouke van der Bijl

Preview the Latest AWS SDK for Go Updates in the Master Branch news

AWS Official Blog

Decoding YAML in Go tutorial

Decoding YAML itself is easy but there are some more advanced considerations to be aware of too.

Mathias Lafeldt

Building a REST API in Go tutorial

Christoffer Åhrling

Golang Internals, Part 4: Object Files and Function Metadata tutorial

Sergey Matyukevich

A Quick and Dirty Guide to Deploying Go Apps tutorial

A look at using Ansible to set up a system ready to run Go apps.

C Saunders

HTTP Handlers in Go tutorial

Neil Lyons

How To Do Stream Multiplexing in Go video

A talk about using Muxado for doing stream multiplexing in Go as a foundation for RPC.

Alan Shreve

How to Make Your Statistical Programs More Scalable With Go video

A recording and slides of a talk given by a Cornell Tech student about using Go for statistical programming (back in 2013).

Aditya Mukerjee

An AngularJS App Backed by Go to Show and Rate Puppies code

Cutesy topic aside, if you want to bring together Angular and Go at all, here’s some code to read.

Seshachalam Malisetti

Color: Easily Colorize Your Terminal Output code

Supports Windows too.

Fatih Arslan

progressio: Library for Progress Feedback from io.Reader and io.Writer Objects code

Bart Meuris

Buffer: Composable Buffers for Go code

Dustin H

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Iñigo