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Go 1.27.1-1 and 1.26.8-1 Microsoft builds now available

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.27.1-1 and 1.26.8-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

Goroutine Leak Profiles

Go 1.27 includes new goroutine leak profiles.

De-Googling: Replacing Google Search with Kagi

A few weeks ago my main Google account was blocked by Google without any reason provided or a way to reclaim it. At its scale, Google probably uses various automated signals and AI to ban accounts and by mistake can easily close yours. I was already slowly “de-googling&rdqu...

How big are factorials?

The other day, I found myself wondering how big 52! (52 factorial) is, and that led me to ponder how these could be estimated without a calculator or a computer. It turns out there’s some fairly interesting math behind being able to estimate the size (number of digits) of …

Generic methods land in Go 1.27

#​615 — August 28, 2026 Read the Web Version 🗓️ If you missed us last week, good news… we're back! As expected, Go 1.27 landed last week, but there's plenty more to get into today :-)__Your editor, Peter Cooper Go Weekly ⭐...

Generic Methods

Go 1.27 adds generic methods—a highly desired language feature.

Welcome to the machine: emulating a CPU

A fun programming project for Go or Rust learners: help rescue a stranded spacecraft by writing an emulator for its simple CPU!

The Kronk SDK

In the previous article we took yzma apart and found a very disciplined bridge: purego finds the functions inside libllama.so, libffi makes the calls, and no C compiler is involved anywhere. What you get out the other end is llama.cpp’s API almost exactly as C sees it —...

I'm on Fallthrough: A Modest Proposal Proposal

In this week's Fallthrough podcast episode, I joined Kris Brandow and Matthew Sanabria to talk about a few things, but mainly the new Go proposal proposal. I don't think this was a particularly good appearance from me - I'd been at GopherCon UK the few days before, and was very n...