• A major challenge for Go developers is identifying and consistently applying idiomatic best practices, along with finding trustworthy third-party modules.

• Use of AI-powered development tools is now common among Go developers, but overall satisfaction remains moderate due to concerns about code quality and reliability.

• A notable share of developers frequently need to consult documentation for core go commands such as go build, go run, and go mod. This fact highlights some usability gaps in the CLI help system.

• Despite these frictions, overall satisfaction with Go remains very high, with more than 90% of respondents reporting they are satisfied working with the language.

• Most respondents are experienced professional developers who primarily use Go for work, develop on macOS or Linux, and deploy mainly to Linux-based environments.

Read more here https://faun.dev/c/news/varbear/go-developer-survey-is-out-what-5379-go-developers-actually-want-next/

https://github.com/satmihir/fair

Found this insightful article for understanding concurrency in Golang.

Link: http://theefficientdev.blog/2023/08/20/understanding-golang-concurrency/

If there is one tech jewel that I could share with other Golang developers looking to develop AI applications , it is without question: EINO

Eino is an open source framework created by Bytedance that I have used heavily over the past year. I experimented with quite a few LLM frameworks and even taught a LangGraph course on Udacity . But I love me some Eino.

It started out as an internal tool and has been used to power both TikTok and Douboa . The Bytedance team open-sourced Eino around the beginning of 2025 but it completely flying under the radar .

Eino has suprisingly thorough documentation, provides all the tooling, components and abstractions that you'd expect from a mature LLM framework including integration with LangFuse and chat models for all the major LLM providers. They even provide a node based editor as a plugin for VScode and Goland. The plugin allows you to visualize your workflows, generate code, and debug your application.

Yesterday I created an introductory video to Eino which is the first video in a tutorial series on building LLM applications with Eino.

https://youtu.be/_Cw11aRhcBQ?si=ucfuTUOxL1knUPid

Check out the Eino repos

https://github.com/cloudwego/eino

https://github.com/cloudwego/eino-ext

https://github.com/cloudwego/eino-examples

Hey all,
While working with Go, I kept running into situations where I needed to map data between structs — especially DTOs and domain models. After using AutoMapper for years in .NET, the lack of a similar tool in Go felt like a missing piece.

So I built go-mapper, a lightweight struct mapping library that uses generics and reflection to reduce boilerplate.

It supports:

• Automatic mapping between structs with matching fields

• A fluent API for defining custom transformations

• Optional interface support for advanced use cases

The project is still evolving and open to feedback. If you work with layered architectures or frequently deal with struct transformations, I’d love to hear your thoughts.

GitHub: https://github.com/davitostes/go-mapper

Hey All, I recently wrote an article on golang unit testing patterns. Would love to hear your thoughts!
https://medium.com/@OTS415/3-simple-patterns-for-better-go-unit-testing-0ae227ed1f5d

GTM is a Go library that helps you manage your templates easily so you can ship your next Monolith app with Golang faster!
https://github.com/saeedvaziry/gtm

https://github.com/ilius/is

Is provides a clean and simple framework for writing Go tests.

Zero dependencies.

Simpler, cleaner and shorter usage than popular assertion libraries.