Happy birthday to Go! The Go programming language turns 16 today 🎂 Jet brains recently shared some of their analysis of the Go ecosystem: blog.jetbrains.com/go/2025/11/1... #golang

Gophers! It looks like Google's ADK is now available for Go! google.golang.org/adk I haven't taken it for a spin yet, but I'm curious to see how it compares to other frameworks like Genkit, Langchain, etc. Do you. have a favorite AI framework?

This blog post about Go's experimental GreenTea Garbage Collector (go.dev/blog/greente...) has great illustrations of how "traditional" mark-and-sweep GC works, as well as how GreenTea is different. Love the transparency, and the data on CPU improvements!

Jetbrains Developer report is out for 2025 (devecosystem-2025.jetbrains.com/tools-and-tr... ) - and there's some surprising Go results in there! - most desired language, with 11% - used by 20% of the developer ecosystem! - #4 overall by JetBrains' overall "promise index" and #2 for highest paid (!?)

I balk at the phrase "10x", but I like this collection of Go patterns: blog.jetbrains.com/go/2025/10/1... I don't *completely* agree with #5 (wrap errors) - there's sometimes a good case for making errors opaque by not wrapping. Agree that looking at strings is definitely *not the way*. 🫠

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was just reminded of how much I love the debugging manifesto poster that Inner Loop Press designed for Wizard Zines, you can get it for $20 US + shipping here: store.wizardzines.com/products/pos... I'm SO delighted with how it turned out (also for more of Inner Loop's work: www.innerloop.press)

Check out the Google I/O talk "What's new in Go" at io.google/2025/explore... @cameronb.bsky.social and I cover a brief history of Go, and many of the new features and capabilities @golang.org has released in the last year.

This year's #GoogleIO is extra exciting, not least because Go team members @cameronb.bsky.social and @muncus.bsky.social will be presenting Go's first ever product keynote, "What's New in Go"! Tune in on Thursday, May 22 at 9am PT 👉 io.google/2025/explore...