GoGraz Go User Group Graz

We hope you had a good start into the new year. Despite (or perhaps because of) being on winter holidays we didn’t really have the time to prepare anything elaborate for the first GoGraz instalment of the year. We will still have the usual rundown of what happened since last month in the Go community and can then have discussions, lighting talks, code-review, whatever we feel like :-)

If you want to give a quick presentation of a new tool you’ve stumbled upon or some technique you’ve tried, please just come and share your knowledge! No need sign up for a “lightning talk” (5-15min). If you want more time, please just send a mail to talks@gograz.org. This is just to let us know in advance so that we can add your talk to the event notes!

Also: If you have some non-confidential piece of code that you want to have reviewed, we can also do that 😀

As always, we’ll update the Meetup announcement with the final Zoom URL on the day of the event. On our Meetup page you can also find all the details about this event.

Lighting talks

• Workspaces in Go 1.18

What happened since last month

• Ginkgo is now at v2
• Sonic is another JSON toolkit that has now reached v1.0.0
• New tutorials for generics and fuzzing which will arrive with 1.18: https://go.dev/blog/tutorials-go1.18
• Afero 1.8
• Delve 1.8

Outlook

• FOSDEM on Feb 5 and Feb 6 once again with a dedicated Go devroom and interesting talks!
• Go 1.18 will be released some time in February
• As always, there are tons of other meetups happening around the world. Many of them are now part of the Go Developer Network and can be found on https://www.meetup.com/pro/go.

Ping repository

• https://github.com/gograz/ping
• Building a repository/backlog of talk ideas
• Everyone can suggest talks by creating a ticket in there
• During the meetups we look over the open tickets and work out if someone wants to look into one of these topics and prepare a talk for the upcoming months.

Things we stumbled upon

• Grazer Linuxtage will be on-site again this year (hopefully!!!!): 2022-04-22 (workshops) and 2022-04-23 (talks)
• Embedding all the things!
• “Delve is now running our program and has paused at the breakpoint on line 19. We can see that Go has created three goroutines, all of which have halted at line 19. The entire Go program was paused at that point time, and that is why the main goroutine didn’t manage to spawn the rest of the goroutines.” https://vtimothy.com/posts/debugging-goroutines/
• Gherkin example: https://specflow.org/learn/gherkin/
• Constant time algorithms in post-quantum algorithms at Rust-Graz: https://www.meetup.com/Graz-Rust-Meetup/events/282989127/
• https://stationf.co/: Startup hub in Paris