Results from the September 2025 developer survey are in!

The 2025 Go Developer Survey reveals insights from 5,379 respondents on their satisfaction with Go, use cases, challenges, and development environments. Key findings include developers' desire for better best practices guidance, their middling satisfaction with AI-powered tools, and the most common challenges being the difficulty of writing idiomatic Go and finding trustworthy Go modules. The survey also highlights the growing use of AI-powered tools in development, though developers remain concerned about the quality of AI-generated code.

Zig's new juicy main is here!

A simple package for building command line apps in Zig

This GitHub repository, sam701/zig-cli, provides a simple package for building command line applications in the Zig programming language. Inspired by the urfave/cli Go package, it allows for parsing command line arguments into Zig values, handling long and short options, subcommands, multiple option values, enums as option values, and more. The package also supports reading options from environment variables, mixing positional arguments with options, and provides API documentation. The README includes an example of defining a configuration structure and creating an App with a command that takes host and port options.

A practical guide to building a parser in Go

This blog post by Tom details his journey of building a recursive descent parser in Go, starting from basic concepts to tackling left recursion with Packrat memoization. The post outlines the three-act architecture of the parser, including the lexer, parser, and AST builder, and discusses the challenges faced, such as handling left recursion and performance issues when parsing complex grammars like Bash. The final parser is robust, capable of parsing complex grammars, and serves as a testament to the learning process.

A string library made for Zig

This GitHub repository provides a UTF-8 compatible string library for the Zig programming language. Created by Jakub Szark, it aims to enhance his understanding of Zig and may be useful for others in their projects. The library is open for contributions and improvements, with requested features listed in the issues section.

Writing mutexes from scratch in Go

This blog post explores the intricacies of implementing mutexes from scratch in Go, discussing various lock types and their performance trade-offs. It covers naive spin locks, atomic operations to avoid race conditions, and the use of OS primitives like futexes to improve efficiency. The post also examines the balance between spinning and sleeping to optimize lock performance under different conditions.

15 Go subtleties you may not already know

Nil interfaces, ranging over integers, the embed package and other interesting tidbits about Go and how they work.

Ziggit - A Zig community

Ziggit is a forum for those interested in, or who are currently programing in the Zig Programming Language and it's an incredible source of knowledge. People are friendly and helpful. If you're actively developing with Zig you should visit and contribute.

Go 1.26 interactive tour

Official release notes are at https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.26 but Anton gives a helpful walkthrough of what's new with code examples.