#593 — March 13, 2026
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How Go’s Inliner and go fix Can Rewrite Your Code Automatically — Go 1.26’s smarter go fix supports a new //go:fix inline directive where package authors can annotate deprecat...
You don’t need many tools to write Rust—just a decent editor, and maybe an
AI assistant or two. Here’s my Rust dev setup in 2026.
How Go 1.26's source-level inliner works, and how it can help you with self-service API migrations.
In the previous article
we explored how Go’s memory allocator manages heap memory — grabbing large arenas from the OS, dividing them into spans and size classes, and using a three-level hierarchy (mcache, mcentral, mheap) to make most allocations lock-free. A key detail...
Exploring the tradeoffs between wrapping errors at every return site versus wrapping only at boundaries, with no definitive answer - just honest tradeoffs for the kind of software I write.
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
The post Go 1.26.1-1 and 1.25.8-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
I became a dad recently, and I’m not publishing a bunch of photos of my kid
like most parents do.
Some people started asking me why, so here it is.
#592 — March 6, 2026
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Allocating on the Stack in Go 1.25+ — Go 1.25 and 1.26 reduce garbage collector overhead by stack-allocating slices in more cases than ever before — including, in 1.26, slices th...
Why your mutex wrapper should accept a closure for mutation instead of a plain value, with examples from the standard library and Tailscale.