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The First Newsletter Dedicated to Product Engineers — The fastest growing startups increasingly rely on product engineers. They can both figure out what to build and actually build it. Product for Engineers is dedicated to sharing the skills and strategies needed to succeed in this role.

go-haystack: Track Personal Devices via Apple's 'Find My' Network — An interesting way to track personal Bluetooth devices via Apple’s massive “Find My” network by way of TinyGo and a little extra hardware.

ebpf-go 0.17: A Way to Work with eBPF from Go — A pure Go library to read, modify and load eBPF programs for use directly by the Linux kernel (eBPF is a neat technology worth exploring if you’re not familiar with it yet). The new 0.17 release requires Go 1.22+ and introduces a new API to work with global variables.

Gophers Pack: A Collection of Gopher Pictures and Design Elements — If you want some handy Go gopher themed images to use for a project, blog post, or presentation, this myriad of cute CC0 (public domainish) elements could be a big help. We use them a lot in this newsletter and Maria has recently added a variety of winter themed options.

if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests — “There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds” is quite the pitch. The trick is using both assignments and a comparison on a single if line to make a test easier to read — it’s even used in the standard library.

Rust vs Go in 2025 — An updated look at a topic that John often covers but with the same conclusion as ever: it’s worth knowing both languages.

Go Developer Survey 2024 H2 Results — The results of the latest Go community survey are out. Over 4000 responses were analyzed with developers largely being satisfied with Go’s direction, but finding maintaining consistent coding standards to be the biggest challenge. Linux and macOS lead the way with OS choice, VS Code and GoLand for IDEs, and AWS when it comes to clouds. We...

Master the Fullstack — Expand your abilities to the server with this comprehensive learning path. You'll learn how to create APIs, build containers, deploy code, set up servers, and much more.

How I Program with LLMs — The co-founder of Tailscale shares his thoughts on modern approaches to writing Go code with numerous LLM-powered techniques and shares off a new LLM-powered ‘Go playground’ he’s working on.

Build Go Apps using Project IDX and the Gemini API — IDX is a Google-developed AI-assisted online workspace for full-stack app development. Here’s the bare basics of getting started with it for Go work.

Pixel Federation Swaps MSK for WarpStream, Saves 83% on Kafka Costs — By swapping AWS MSK for WarpStream, Pixel Federation drastically reduced Kafka costs and eliminated complex VPC peering.

betteralign 0.6: Make Your Programs Use Less Memory.. Maybe — A tool to detect structs that could use less memory if their fields were organized differently. It’s a fork of Go’s fieldalignment tool that skips generated or test files, skips specially marked structs or those with anonymous fields, doesn’t drop comments, and similar DX enhancements.

Fuego: A Nest-Inspired API/Web Framework for Go — “The only Go framework generating OpenAPI documentation from code. Inspired by Nest, built for Go developers.” Here’s a hello world example along with full docs. The latest version (0.17) adds (initial) Gin router support.

templ: A Way to Build HTML with Go — Create components that render fragments of HTML and compose them to create screens, pages, documents, and apps. GitHub repo.

Memos: A Privacy-First Go-Powered Note Taking App — A complete, MIT-licensed note taking webapp that you can self host and which continues to see frequent updates. It uses Echo as a framework and stores its data in a SQLite file. GitHub repo.

5. Learning Go in 2024; From Beginner to Senior — Matt brought together six years of bookmarks (and YouTube history) to point to something for everyone hoping to pick up some new Go skills in 2024.

6. Why People are 'Angry' Over Go 1.23 Iterators — ‘Angry’ is a little OTT, but there was much robust debate about Go’s proposed new iterator helpers earlier this year. The creator of the Odin language chimed in with his thoughts, opining that Go should stay unapologetically imperative.

8. Go Performance from Version 1.0 to 1.22 — Two years ago we enjoyed the author’s Go performance analysis from Go 1.2 to 1.18. This was an update taking things from Go 1.0 through to 1.22 (the latest version back in April).

3. Interactive Release Notes for Go 1.23 — If you find traditional release notes hard going, this interactive alternative with inline executable code snippets might help you get a grip on 1.23, still the latest major version of Go. Anton also had a similar set of notes for Go 1.22.

1. Cogent Core: A New GUI Framework for Go — I was surprised this was by far the most clicked link as news tends to trump frameworks/libraries. Cogent is a “code once, run everywhere” GUI framework aiming to be simpler than Gio and more powerful than Fyne. Cogent’s site itself is built with the framework and compiled to WASM to run on the Web. It...

Benchmarking Different Go SQLite Drivers (Again) — An update of a benchmark we first linked a year ago. As with any benchmark results, maintain a critical eye here, but the author found significant differences between the now eight options (previously seven).

Go 1.24 Release Candidate 1 Released — This announcement isn’t particularly exciting, but if you want to get ahead of what’s coming in February 2025 with the final Go 1.24 release, the holidays aren't a bad time to have a play. The draft Go 1.24 release notes go into more detail.

Go Protobuf and the New Opaque API — The existing protobuf module is here to stay, but now we get an additional API that provides a more loosely coupled abstraction for working with protobufs without being tied to their underlying in-memory representations. The benefits? Memory efficiency, lazy decoding, and fewer opportunities for bugs.

4. Rust vs Go in 2024? — A perennially popular post from yesteryear was tweaked for 2024 with a comparison of the ‘both awesome’ languages including what they’re both good at, their key differences, and some trade-offs to consider. More recently, however, John has asserted that Rust and Go are better off together than apart.