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  1. …should I be looking at those instead? Edit: Here's a link to the first, legendary commits in Go: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/eef3fbb83ee0d654fbd3545... I guess HN stripped the "after" param from the URL, breaking your link.
    comment by lumpa · 2021-02-10 · in The first commits to the Go repository are a legendary easter egg
  2. Comment on the issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43651#issuecomment-75886... From the proposal: > However, it‘s tedious to have to write interface{} every time you write a generic function that doesn’t impose constraints on its…
    comment by nixpulvis · 2021-02-04 · in Go generics proposal moves to “likely accept”
  3. …also worth noting that Go absolutely has broken tooling through a language update in the past ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24661 ) and just generally does not have a particularly great history or coherent philosophy of good…
    comment by striking · 2021-02-03 · in Go generics proposal moves to “likely accept”
  4. …that go developers like the explicitness of `if err != nil` and just want to leave it be [2] [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437 [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32804 [2]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32825
    comment by ibraheemdev · 2021-02-03 · in Ent. An Entity Framework for Go
  5. …that the rules don't apply to them, because reasons. And the end result was stuff like this: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16606 So now they're gradually backtracking on all platforms - macOS switched to libc a while ago.
    comment by int_19h · 2021-02-02 · in Go 1.16 will make system calls through Libc on OpenBSD
  6. Yup :) https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/sync/mutex.go You can easily see what Go does here. It's not magic.
    comment by aaomidi · 2021-01-25 · in Node.js race conditions
  7. Golang is also considering consuming this new metadata: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43838
    comment by mappu · 2021-01-24 · in Making Win32 APIs More Accessible to More Languages
  8. …get right. E.g. here's someone trying to propose abstract data types for Go without much luck: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/43123
    comment by yawaramin · 2021-01-20 · in Writing a Kubernetes CRD Controller in Rust
  9. ~~Yikes, 0% for golang https://merge-chance.info/target?repo=https://github.com/gol... In fairness a decent chunk of the rejected PRs are low effort / not acceptable things. EDIT: Ah a more plausible reason, it seems the PRs get merged at…
    comment by boarnoah · 2021-01-18 · in Will your PR get merged?
  10. …Points against it were made in: https://dave.cheney.net/2019/01/08/avoid-package-names-like-... https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#package... 2) Check out the number of dependencies. This looks almost like NPM hell. 3)…
    comment by bilinguliar · 2021-01-17 · in Ask HN: Which are the best Go repositories to read to learn the language?
  11. …of OpenResty (known as Nginx + Lua). I have written Go for several years and I have contributed to github.com/golang/go. We have done some benchmarks around APISIX, Kong, Tyk. APISIX is the fastest (APISIX > Kong > Tyk). All of them have…
    comment by spacewander · 2021-01-17 · in Building DigitalOcean's API Gateway
  12. …is working on the latest releases. Note that for 9front tip, there's one small patch that you need: https://github.com/golang/go/pull/43533
    comment by ori_b · 2021-01-14 · in A Week with Plan 9
  13. …burn any oil on it because creating a new language, even a fork, is neither easy nor quick. [0]: https://github.com/golang/go [1]: https://github.com/gurjeet/gofy/tree/gofy [differences]: https://github.com/gurjeet/gofy/tree/gofy#gofy-desir…
    comment by gurjeet · 2021-01-03 · in I want off Mr. Golang's Wild Ride (2020)
  14. …and judging by the past experience I don't have high hopes for it to get into the language. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/33502 [2] just one last I saw today, but there are more tickets about same or connected issue…
    comment by tandr · 2020-12-30 · in V (Vlang) 0.2
  15. …AES support, fixed by [1]. Since that was written by Googlers, you could say Google funded it. 1: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/c15593197453b8bf90fc3a90...
    comment by jeffbee · 2020-12-18 · in Go 1.16 Beta 1
  16. Interesting, I can confirm. I wonder if this was the fix. https://github.com/golang/go/commit/c15593197453b8bf90fc3a90...
    comment by jeffbee · 2020-12-12 · in ARM MacBook vs. Intel MacBook
  17. …randomly and for example t, s, and b are terrible variable names in my opinion in this example : https://github.com/golang/go/blob/3ce865d7a0b88714cc433454ae... You can find a lot of code like this.
    comment by speedgoose · 2020-12-07 · in A Modern JavaScript Tutorial
  18. Interestingly Golang encourages one letter variable names and it's not sarcasm this time : https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#variabl... Golang's landscape is full of one letter variables and abbreviations and it's not…
    comment by speedgoose · 2020-12-07 · in A Modern JavaScript Tutorial
  19. …bumped into. Maybe this is a fun challenge for you to become more familiar with golang? [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20280
    comment by latchkey · 2020-12-04 · in Project Loom and Structured Concurrency
  20. …[2] https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/73908 [3] https://github.com/mono/mono/pull/20014 [4] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/38485
    comment by tim-- · 2020-12-04 · in M1 Macs: Truth and Truthiness
  21. …https://github.com/cuelang/cue Go's source is also pretty interesting and full of great things ( https://github.com/golang/go ). Here are some of the internals pulled out: https://github.com/rogpeppe/go-internal
    comment by verdverm · 2020-11-28 · in Ask HN: What side project improved your skills the most?
  22. …does to interact with the OS in the first place. It also uses cgo internally for that task. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2a029b3f26169be7c89cb2cdcc...
    comment by est31 · 2020-11-23 · in Run Homebrew Natively on Apple Silicon Arm M1
  23. …ps://github.com/cretz/go2k/tree/master/compiler/src/test/... 1 - https://github.com/cretz/goahead 2 - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18602
    comment by kodablah · 2020-11-22 · in Manual Memory Management in Go using jemalloc
  24. Plenty of stuff, https://github.com/golang/go/issues/42430 As usual, Go knows better than other the older languages and then a kludge solution gets done.
    comment by pjmlp · 2020-11-22 · in Manual Memory Management in Go using jemalloc
  25. …issue, and the assembly isn't being used. Just my speculation, though. I haven't looked into it. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/crypto/aes/asm_...
    comment by zingermc · 2020-11-20 · in Go standard library benchmarks – Intel vs. M1
  26. …designers are actively trying to fix it [2]. [1] https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html [2] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437
    comment by aboodman · 2020-11-17 · in Don't Panic
  27. …on AS, which mentions that support is coming in version 1.16 scheduled for release on Feb 1st 2021: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/38485
    comment by thamer · 2020-11-17 · in Apple Silicon M1 Chips and Docker
  28. Go 1.16 will have native file embedding (eta Feb '21) https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41191
    comment by verdverm · 2020-11-12 · in Embed Static Files in Go Binaries with Pkger
  29. …so I encourage anyone thinking they could improve the language to open a feature request on GitHub: https://github.com/golang/go/issues
    comment by andreygrehov · 2020-11-11 · in Eleven Years of Go
  30. Yes, by building the dev.go2go branch: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/dev.go2go/README.go2go.md
    comment by avery42 · 2020-11-11 · in Eleven Years of Go
  31. …the RFC and do it yourself. This peaked my interest, because it didn't match my experience at all. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12292 It was an initial reply to another user, which was immediately reconsidered and accepted when the…
    comment by terinjokes · 2020-11-11 · in Eleven Years of Go
  32. …keen to read it, it's out there. Google the phrase, in quotes, "A while ago I created an issue on the github.com/golang/go issue tracker because the I find the choice of fonts" I don't want to link it or paste here, but yeah, there it is.
    comment by axaxs · 2020-11-10 · in Eleven Years of Go
  33. …not a problem, and works very very very well as is. Then again, one can hope that maybe by 2025 :) https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32437#issuecomment-51203...…
    comment by alquemist · 2020-11-10 · in Eleven Years of Go
  34. …and I like this idea, but the runtime is a black box, that I don't like so much. [0]. For example: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14592 .
    comment by roryrjb · 2020-11-10 · in Why Concurrency Is Hard
  35. Your estimate (> 90) for the number of people working on the core language is way off: https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors Re: SML types, I think you may be confounding simplicity and terseness. The last time I touched ML was…
    comment by amscanne · 2020-11-07 · in Go Type Parameters – Draft Design
  36. …go team submitting even an identical draft would be listened to. Lots of discussion documented at https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/ExperienceReports#generics e.g. https://docs.google.com/document/d/1vrAy9gMpMoS3uaVphB32uVXX... Even the…
    comment by barnacled · 2020-11-05 · in Go Type Parameters – Draft Design
  37. …room for improvement there. 0 - https://webassembly.github.io/spec/core/exec/instructions.ht... 1 - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26622 2 - https://github.com/cretz/go-wasm-bake
    comment by kodablah · 2020-11-05 · in Uno: Single-Codebase for Windows, WebAssembly, iOS, macOS, Android and Linux
  38. There is an active discussion about this on in the issue tracker: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41716 It looks like there is a willingness to do this, but not a clear solution yet.
    comment by yiyus · 2020-11-05 · in Go Type Parameters – Draft Design
  39. See for yourself :) https://github.com/golang/go This is a good example file: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/crypto/crypto.g...
    comment by rwdim · 2020-10-29 · in Ask HN: How does high quality source code from Google looks like?
  40. https://github.com/golang/go
    comment by torniker · 2020-10-29 · in Ask HN: Good Golang Codebases to Read
  41. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29621
    comment by 1vuio0pswjnm7 · 2020-10-09 · in Chrome is deploying HTTP/3 and IETF QUIC
  42. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/29036 which is still open.
    comment by earthboundkid · 2020-10-03 · in Python typosquatting is about more than typos
  43. Like that dude who had a go project that bowled over by Google Golang E: found it! https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
    comment by edoceo · 2020-10-01 · in Kitty – A fast, featureful, GPU based terminal emulator
  44. …Apple's libc. That's right. In fact this was a source of a time-related bug in Go on Mac OS. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17490 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16570
    comment by asdfasgasdgasdg · 2020-09-27 · in Is the C runtime and library a legitimate part of the Unix API? (2017)
  45. …you can't exploit this if I link you to a traefik configured in this way you refuse to run it. [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/1435
    comment by TheDong · 2020-09-25 · in Traefik, Now With Native Go Plugins
  46. Other comments in this sub-topic: An example - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41467#issuecomment-69804... A fix - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41467#issuecomment-69689... A clarification - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/414…
    comment by networkimprov · 2020-09-25 · in The Go os.File.ReadDir() proposal is broken
  47. From the README in the repo: "This repo is a fork of the Go repo ( https://github.com/golang/go ). Nearly all of Biscuit's code is in biscuit/." From one of the linked papers: "Biscuit has nearly 28 thousand lines of Go, 1546 lines of…
    comment by tomku · 2020-09-23 · in Biscuit: A monolithic, POSIX-subset operating system kernel in Go
  48. This looks promising, but has a major gap -- it can produce different results on various filesystems. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/41467#issuecomment-69689...
    comment by networkimprov · 2020-09-23 · in Go proposal: os.File.ReadDir() for lightweight directory reading
  49. …is URIs (which can be javascript: or data:), which Golang's html/template correctly escapes: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/html/template/u...
    comment by EE84M3i · 2020-09-22 · in Maud: Compile-time HTML templates for Rust
  50. …in particular like Rust has a standard formatter. https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments
    comment by dodobirdlord · 2020-09-21 · in Why Not Rust?