The most popular Golang links of 2017

Za'e Johnson
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4 min readDec 20, 2017

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We’ve dug through the data from this year’s issues of Golang Weekly to bring you the most popular links of 2017.

Check out what Go developers have been reading throughout 2017.

What’s New in Go 1.8

John Hua

26 slides quickly touring what was new and what changed in the 1.8 release.

Featured in February’s Issue 147

Should Go 2.0 Support Generics?

Dave Cheney

One of Go’s most recognized users chimes in on the debate with the two choices that the core team has in regard to its biggest issue.

Featured in July’s Issue 170

How to Not Use An HTTP Router in Go

Axel Wagner

An opinionated post with some interesting observations. If you want to implement HTTP routing in Go, this is well worth a read.

Featured in June’s Issue 165

The Ultimate Guide to Writing a Go Tool

Faith Arslan

A very thorough tutorial for building a tool to add tags to struct fields via command line or within an editor.

Featured in September’s Issue 178

Go Makes It Into TIOBE’s Top 10 Languages

TIOBE

The TIOBE Programming Community index is a popular, though controversial, indicator of the relative popularity of programming languages.

Golang entered the top ten in the summer but has since dropped a few places.

Featured in July’s Issue 168

How to Ship Production-Grade Go

Kavya Joshi

A look at several things you can do to make your code more robust, debuggable, and ready for production.

Featured in April’s Issue 155

Context Should Go Away for Go 2

Michal Štrba

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

Featured in August’s Issue 172

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