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Operators of death: checked arithmetic in Rust

Startlingly, the standard arithmetic operators in Rust can give us the wrong answers—and that can be fatal. To avoid getting your bits chopped off, use checked arithmetic instead.

Model Management

The previous article went through the Kronk SDK: a batching engine, a conversation cache, and a pile of workarounds behind a very small public API. All of it rested on three assumptions: that the model file was already on disk, that somebody had chosen a context size that fits i...

Notes on debugging standard and third-party Emacs code

Building cgo code without a C compiler?

#​617 — September 11, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Could Go Build cgo Packages Without a C Compiler? — Cross-compiling with import "C" can be painful as it needs a C toolchain. This proposal would let packages that only call p...

Go 1.27.1-2 Microsoft build now available

A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.27.1-2 Microsoft build now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.

Understanding Testcontainers: The Ryuk Reaper

If you’ve used Testcontainers in any language (Go, Java, .NET, Python, Node, Rust), you’ve probably noticed an extra container hanging around in your docker ps output while your tests run. Its image is testcontainers/ryuk, and its name follows a pattern that varies by...

The prospect for language independent tooling for making code changes

Go code can now run before your OS does

#​616 — September 4, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Go 1.27 Can Now Find Leaked Goroutines — Go 1.27 added a goroutineleak profile that spots goroutines permanently blocked on channels or sync primitives, even in production. It p...

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.