#618 — September 18, 2026
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Size-Specialized Memory Allocation in Go 1.27 — Small allocations (under 80 bytes) are now up to 30% faster, and you can get the benefits just by rebuilding. Learn where the s...
Go 1.27 improves performance of small allocations using size-specialized allocation functions.
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.
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...
#617 — September 11, 2026
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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...
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.
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...
#616 — September 4, 2026
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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...