Go 1.21 is released!
Go 1.21 brings language improvements, new standard library packages, PGO GA, backward and forward compatibility in the toolchain and faster builds.
Go 1.21 released
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Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'
A variable's name is more important than its type, so the name should be more prominent and come first in declarations.
Slices Package: Binary Search
Series Here are all the posts in this series about the slices package. Binary Search Clip, Clone, and Compact Compare Contains, Delete, and Equal Introduction Go’s most important data structure is the slice and it was designed from the beginning to be mechanically sympathetic...
The Go team's new project templating tool
#471 — August 1, 2023 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Experimenting with Project Templates with gonew — The Go team has unveiled a new, experimental tool for creating new Go projects from predefined templates. Anyone can write the...
Experimenting with project templates
Announcing golang.org/x/tools/cmd/gonew, an experimental tool for starting new Go projects from predefined templates
The proposal to enhance Go's HTTP router
A brief look at the proposed enhancements to the Go standard library HTTP request router, net/http.ServeMux: matching on HTTP method, and supporting wildcards in matched paths.
Scripting with Go: a 400-line Git client that can create a repo and push itself to GitHub
In which I rewrite my toy pygit client in Go to see how suitable Go is for simple scripts.
The issue with control flow in interpreters using the 'eval' pattern
The 'eval' pattern for interpreting simple languages