Go Digest: June 2014

In June, a lot of interesting things happened in the world of the Go language, and if you suddenly missed something, now it doesn't matter: we offer you a digest of the main news and materials for the first month of summer, intentionally released on Friday just before the weekend.

news

• Go 1.3 was released - Version 1.3 was released on June 18, six months after version 1.2, and it contains no changes in language. The main work was done on the implementation, which ensured accurate garbage collection, refactoring of the toolchain, which resulted in faster assembly, especially large projects, and significant performance improvements. Read more about the new release here [ru], and even more details - on the official site [en] and in a short review [en].
• Android support for Go 1.4 [ru] - Most likely, support for Android will appear in the new version of the language, with the bindings for OpenGL and Java allowing you to write games for Go and use your code on the mobile platform.
• Dropbox donated their Go libraries to open source [en] - As it became known, even though Dropbox continues to develop most of the functionality in Python, components that are critical for performance have already migrated to Go. In this connection, the company has written several of its "bikes", which will be useful to many. The laid out components are designed to work with caching and Memcache, building SQL queries, improved error output and an improved hashing algorithm.
• The meeting of Golang Moscow took place . Video recordings of reports from the Moscow meeting of the gofers, held on June 21, can be viewed here.
• At the last Google I / O 2014 there were several reports about Golang - And their records will be available as screencasts a little later.
• Cayley, Google's open graph database, written in Go - Works as an add-on to LevelDB or MongoDB. There is a review and video .
• juju - A cool Ubuntu DevOps cloud management tool - now on Github.
• Release beego 1.3 - New release framework for rapid development of web applications and APIs on Go
• The release of the excellent dependency manager gpm v1.2.3

Articles

• Why Go Is Not Good - A story about why Go is not so good. It is recommended to read the post at least because it will be referred to in articles about Go all July.
• Is Go the language of OOP? [ru] [en]
• Example of converting data from POST to structure on pure Go
• Associative Go templates
• The experience of creating a complex dating site on Go - Very detailed and useful article
• How I Use Sourcegraph - A free book about using Sourcegraph.
• Use Go to work with SSH
• We work with cURL on Go
• Comparative benchmarks of various web frameworks on Go
• Gopher Go! - OS & Syscall - An article about using the os package and system calls in Go.
• Automatic documentation generation with one simple trick
• Create a web application on Go using the beego framework ( part 1 , part 2 )
• Using Go on Google App Engine
• Encoding / decoding and working with dates in the Go language
• Comparison of implementations of the k-NN algorithm on Go and Haskell
• "Why I like Go"
• Epic Node + ExpressJS, Python + Flask and Golang + Gorilla Pat
• Article about working with pictures on Go
• Actionable Data With MongoDB and Go
• Creating a web API and generating documentation for it using beego
• Search engine development on Go
• Go Concurrency: From the Trenches - Again about oncurrency in Go.
• Working with pointers in the Go programming language
• Agitating our team to develop on Go - Agitating, by the way, DigitalOcean.
• Built-in Go types
• Scala vs Go - One of the authors Go "breaks the veil."

Video

• From Parallel to Concurrent [ru] - A report from Rob Pike (one of the Go authors) at the Lang.NEXT 2014 conference. It is highly recommended for viewing to those who have not yet watched it.
• GopherVids - An excellent directory of videos about Go.

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Projects

• Yet Another Simple Note - An example of a ToDo application on Go and JS for beginners.
• Sample application for Go and AngularJS for training.
• Gopher Angular Tutorial - Port AngularJS.org tutorial on GopherJS using go-angularjs.
• A simple example of a guest book on Go for GAE.
• A good example of working with MongoDB in Go programs.
• Relational algebra in Go.
• Simulator epidemic.
• goat - And another dependency manager for Go. Now it is a goat.

There are a lot of useful projects and libraries left overboard (since there are just some incredible amount of them), so if you have any extras, please leave them in the comments.

Digest prepared with the support of the site 4gophers. For the gif in the cap of the post, a special thank you to the TheWho username, who made the animation specifically at my request.