#172: Should 'Context' Go Away in Go 2?

Typed 'nil's in Go 2  story 

Dave gives you some code to think about before considering the future for typed nils in Go 2.

Dave Cheney

Context Should Go Away for Go 2  opinion 

Why Context is bad (“like a virus”?), the good things it does, and how Go 2 could make it all better.

Michal Štrba

memguard: Extra Memory Security in Go  tools 

memguard is a pure Go library for handling sensitive values in memory. It uses syscalls, a canary value, and wipes memory when freed to increase security.

Awn Umar

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ActiveState   sponsored 

Pitfalls of Context Values and How to Avoid or Mitigate Them in Go  tutorial 

Why using context values can become problematic, some alternative approaches that don’t use context values and when they are appropriate.

Jon Calhoun

Always Be Closing: The Tale of a Resource Leak  tutorial 

The process and tools used to track down a subtle resource leak (hint: be careful with Context) and the resultant simple fix.

Square

Excelize: Go Library for Reading and Writing Excel Documents  code 

Want to write or read some Microsoft Excel spreadsheets from Go? This is what you need.

360 Enterprise Security Group

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Hired   sponsored 

We are looking for a Full Stack Engineer with a strong interest in building, deploying, and operating back-end tools and services that process enormous quantities of data in performant ways.

New Relic   sponsored 

Goroutines Make Concurrency (Almost) Easy  tutorial 

Treehouse

How to Inject Build-Time Variables into Your Binaries  tutorial 

Alex Ellis

Hacking Go Interfaces from the Inside Out  tutorial 

How would you define an interface for a Logging API if you started from inside Logger?

Charles Francoise

This book contains years of wisdom from experts the fastest way to learn how to connect to a database with Go.

VividCortex   sponsored 

Go Slices Are Not Dynamic Arrays  tutorial 

Applied Go

Easy Middleware without External Packages in Go  tutorial 

Kevin Burns

Accessing AWS with the Go SDK  tutorial 

Vidsey Blog

A Farewell To Go: Why One Developer Is Leaving  opinion 

Lukas Schörghuber

Hexya: An ERP and Business Application Development Framework  tools 

Hexya

vim-go 1.14 Released: The Go Plugin for vim  tools 

Fatih Arslan

A step-by-step guide to updating legacy processes in your org.

CircleCI   sponsored 

SmartCrop: A Pure Go Smart Image Cropper  code 

Finds good image crops for arbitrary crop sizes.

Christian Muehlhaeuser

ipd: IP Address Lookup Service  code 

The code that powers ifconfig.co.

Martin Polden

vlan-nats: Create a Virtual LAN Using NATS  code 

RapidLoop