Let's Look at Go's New Experimental API for JSON — Working with the Internet’s most popular data exchange format is a fundamental, day-to-day task for most developers but Go’s original json package had enough shortcomings to warrant an attempt at a ‘v2’ which you can use, in experimental form, in Go 1.25. The Go team breaks down the entire story and the behavior of v2 here, but also seeks your feedback.

Tsai, Martí, et al.

Go with the Domain: DDD & Clean Architecture in Go — For Go developers tired of enterprise patterns that don't fit. The Watermill creators show how DDD actually works in Go with code examples from a real application.

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What the Go Proxy Has Been Doing — A few weeks ago, Ted asked What is the Go (module) proxy even doing? after he found it hammering his server. He’s since traded some emails with Russ Cox and discovered some curious things about the proxy’s behavior, particularly around the contents (and/or lack of) of LICENSE files. This post from Russ Cox himself goes into even more detail.

Ted Unangst

Avoiding Common sync.WaitGroup Mistakes — WaitGroup is easy to misuse, but as of Go 1.25, the go vet tool has extra checks to prevent error-prone calls to WaitGroup.Add, and WaitGroup.Go helps avoid some problems altogether.

Jon Calhoun

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🤖 Google Releases Genkit Go 1.0 — Genkit Go is Google’s own open-source AI development framework and it’s now production ready along with a suite of ancillary tools targeting Go developers building LLM-backed apps (and not just using Google’s own models). There’s an introductory tutorial to learn more.

Gill and Balahan (Google)

Ergo 3.1: An Actor-Based Framework for Go — A Go-based implementation of ideas and design patterns from the Erlang world. v3.1 introduces a new cron-like scheduler, external process management, and improved testing capabilities. Full docs here.

Taras Halturin

go-getter 1.8: Download Things from Various Sources with a URL — So it’s just an HTTP client? Not exactly. A GitHub URL can become a git URL, local filenames work, S3, Mercurial and BitBucket URLs all work as expected too.

HashiCorp

GoferBroke: An Anti-Entropy Gossip Protocol for Distributed Systems — A minimal, high-performance ‘gossip’ protocol designed for embedding decentralized, eventually-consistent state into your apps.

Kristian Woodroffe

Kratos 2.9: A Go Framework for Cloud-Based Microservices — A “microservice-oriented governance framework” built around HTTP/gRPC.

Kratos