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Go News Brief (Q3 2021)

Several releases this quarter include compiler improvements, 64-bit ARM support on Windows, and conversions from slice to array pointer, among others. Memory management and performance optimization are popular topics, plus this month's top articles and guides.

Go News Brief (Q2 2021)

Several in-person Go conferences this year. The go collective has joined StackOverflow. A TinyGo release. Discussions on fuzzing and Generics.

An Introduction to Go Tooling

When picking a language for your next project, few things are more critical than the tooling it provides. In this article, Ayooluwa Isaiah wraps up our Go for Rubyists series with an introduction to go tooling.
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  • Dec 22, 2020

Why Rubyists Should Consider Learning Go

These days fewer and fewer web developers get to specialize in a single language like Ruby. We use different tools for different jobs. In this article, Ayooluwa Isaiah argues that Go is the perfect complement to Ruby. The developer who knows both is in a great position to handle almost any back-end challenge.
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  • Apr 29, 2020

Logging in Go: Choosing a System and Using it

Go has built-in features to make it easier for programmers to implement logging. Third parties have also built additional tools to make logging easier. What's the difference between them? Which should you choose? In this article Ayooluwa Isaiah describes both of these and discusses when you'd prefer one over the other.
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  • Apr 1, 2020

Honeybadger for Go (golang) v0.0.3 released

Last week we released some improvements to our Go client, which reports panics and errors from Go applications. You can now configure the client to ignore errors in development/test mode.

Honeybadger for Go (golang) 0.0.2 released

This week we released some improvements to our Go client, which reports panics and errors from Go applications.

Go write a web app! Five interesting Go web frameworks

Go is such a new language that even more established frameworks can have interesting quirks. One of the key issues learning the Go framework is the availability of useful documentation. Unfortunately, Go framework maintainers don’t always prioritize writing the documentation necessary to get new programmers up to speed on their frameworks. The five frameworks below, however, have usable documentation and are straightforward to use.
  • author photo By Starr Horne
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  • Jul 16, 2015

Announcing realtime error monitoring for Go

If you're a Go developer, we have some great news: you can now monitor your Go applications for panics and errors with Honeybadger! We've been working hard to create the same great error monitoring experience that our Ruby customers enjoy for the Go community, and we hope you'll love the results.
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