This post provides a quick summary of the major things I’ve worked on in 2024.

• Added support for Go 1.11–1.19 execution traces to the new Go trace parser.
• Wrote honnef.co/go/safeish, a Go package containing helpers for unsafe code.
• Released Staticcheck 2024.1, improving support for Go 1.22 and adding support for Go 1.23.
• Released Gotraceui 0.4.0 (although most of the changes in the release were made in 2023).
• Started work on a new GUI framework in Go and as part of that
  • implemented Flutter-inspired widget and render trees.
  • ported Kurbo to Go (honnef.co/go/curve). Kurbo provides primitives and routines for 2D shapes, curves, and paths.
  • ported Vello to Go (honnef.co/go/jello). Vello is a 2D graphics rendering engine with a focus on GPU compute.
  • wrote Go bindings for wgpu (honnef.co/go/wgpu). wgpu is a Rust implementation of WebGPU.
  • unarchived my Vulkan bindings (honnef.co/go/vk) and implemented a code generator.
  • wrote honnef.co/go/color, a Go package for working with colors and color spaces, with a focus on the requirements of a color-space-aware GUI library.
  • wrote a Lottie parser and a renderer.
  • wrote enough of a PDF parser and renderer to use it for rendering vector icons.
  • worked on a text rendering stack and
    • implemented parsers for large parts of the OpenType format.
    • implemented the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm (UAX #9).
    • implemented the Unicode Line Breaking Algorithm (UAX #14).
    • despaired at the state of font selection and font fallback.
    • wrote bindings for Harfbuzz.
    • implemented styled text rendering.
• Complained about issues.