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…portable: ///usr/bin/env go run "$0" "$@"; exit Note, the exit code isn't passed through due to: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13440

comment by emersion · 2025-12-30 · in Go away Python

Official stance about supporting interpreter mode for the reference https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24118

comment by age123456gpg · 2025-12-30 · in Go away Python

…so seems like a decent chance it will happen. From: #73608 proposal: all: add bare metal support https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73608 > Go applications built with GOOS=none would run on bare metal, without any underlying OS. All…

comment by typical182 · 2025-12-23 · in Go-boot: bare metal Go UEFI boot manager

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/7ecb1f36acab7b48d77991d58d... Here linker relies on the current memory layout. Changing it requires updating linker code as well.

comment by f311a · 2025-12-21 · in Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers

Issue tracking this “regression” : https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71368

comment by ncruces · 2025-12-20 · in Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers

…some open questions like what to use for a backing data type and what complexity promises to make. https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/47331

comment by kevindamm · 2025-12-20 · in Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers

…isn't sufficient at a technical level, which are brought up by comments on the original proposal: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21865 1) You are almost certainly going to be passing that key material to some other functions, and…

comment by kbolino · 2025-12-13 · in Go Proposal: Secret Mode

…You cannot reimplement arenas as the experiment did without special hooks into the runtime. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/arena/arena.go

comment by 9rx · 2025-12-11 · in Golang's big miss on memory arenas

TIL: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257

comment by pstuart · 2025-12-10 · in Golang's big miss on memory arenas

…regions proposal[1], which is what came out of what was learned from tinkering with arenas. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257

comment by 9rx · 2025-12-10 · in Golang's big miss on memory arenas

…on "memory regions" as a successor to the arena concept, without the API "infection" problem: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257

comment by ideal_gas · 2025-12-10 · in Golang's big miss on memory arenas

…And an in-progress proposal to make these various "bubble" functions have consistent semantics: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76477 (As an aside, the linked blog series is great, but if you're interested in new Go features, I've…

comment by dpifke · 2025-12-10 · in Go Proposal: Secret Mode

I thought the recent error proposal was quite interesting even if it didn't go through: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71528 My hope is they will see these repeated pain points and find something that fits the error/result/enum issues…

comment by evanmoran · 2025-12-04 · in Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig

…I started reading through one of their highlighted examples --- the Go repo ( https://codewiki.google/github.com/golang/go ). This might be the worst high level overview of Go and its repo I've read. Mostly accurate but unhelpfully…

comment by gunsch · 2025-12-02 · in Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding

You might find this proposal and the upcoming runtime/secret package interesting. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21865

comment by FiloSottile · 2025-11-20 · in Go Cryptography State of the Union

…e.g. with Go projects, the go linker exposes an -x flag Someday, Go programs won't have to do this: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/50603

comment by ignoramous · 2025-11-20 · in Reproducible C++ builds by logging Git hashes

…been working on a programming language named Go for the last 10 years, please pick another name." https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9

comment by CobrastanJorji · 2025-11-17 · in Project Gemini

…and when they did Go! dirty, Google made clear which one they are. Status changed to Unfortunate https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issuecomment-66047478

comment by ModernMech · 2025-11-15 · in Go's Sweet 16

…something like intrinsics even. Fortunately compiler support for intrinsics seems to be on its way! https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73787

comment by ashf023 · 2025-11-05 · in The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025

…to technical infeasibilty. What exactly are the rules for when a thread is garbage collected in W++? [0] github.com/golang/go/issues/19702

comment by bheadmaster · 2025-10-26

…want to optimistically assume otherwise. Is pread() available in the Golang standard library? https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19563 is someone using os.File.ReadAt, which is a method name that makes me even more uncertain. But there's…

comment by kragen · 2025-10-24 · in How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go

…the code that would be needed, and I discovered that you can't call real or imag on generic types: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/50937 ]

comment by kbolino · 2025-10-22 · in Go subtleties

The time.After function creates a channel that will be sent a message after x seconds. Or, will it? https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24595 ... even though the value is nil, the type of the variable is a non-nil interface... Go "boxes"…

comment by ignoramous · 2025-10-22 · in Go subtleties

…System" or "Phone Idle") For example, Golang applications had 15 second keep alive until recently: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48622 . Imagine you've opened the website which uses golang web server/proxy and enabled notifications…

comment by ValdikSS · 2025-10-21 · in KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

The consequences of this genius decision were stuff like this: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16570 Which is why they have already backpedalled on this decision on most platforms. Linux is pretty much the only OS where the syscall ABI…

comment by int_19h · 2025-10-19 · in IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

…you can easily experiment to see if this helps your application, without doing a major refactor. In https://github.com/golang/go/issues/64926 it was a bridge-too-far for the Go developers (fair enough) but maybe it could still happen one…

comment by mappu · 2025-10-10 · in CPU cache-friendly data structures in Go

Semi related: there is an active proposal of having a go OS Target of "none" (or noos (No-OS)). https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73608 Sounds like they want to maybe include https://github.com/usbarmory/tamago in the compiler.

comment by kyrra · 2025-10-09 · in Goiaba: An experimental Go compiler, written in Rust

…The reporter actually spent the effort to track it down, turns out it _was_ a Go compiler bug. ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20427 )

comment by SuperQue · 2025-10-09 · in We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

I noticed this when reviewing the linked issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73259#issuecomment-31004... Does the Go team have a natural language bot or is this just comment.contains(“backport”) type stuff?

comment by cmckn · 2025-10-08 · in We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

For the impatient, here's the fix: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/f7cc61e7d7f77521e073137c...

comment by pengaru · 2025-10-08 · in We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

…I'm really hopeful that the SIMD proposals do eventually make it into the language, e.g. this one: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73787#issuecomment-32081...

comment by nasretdinov · 2025-09-25 · in How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV

…hold: > Note, 2023-01-17. This proposal is on hold indefinitely due to serious API concerns. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51317 Potential successor: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257

comment by sa46 · 2025-09-25 · in How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV

…easy to fix if you stumble upon it after years of added cruft and changing requirements. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914

comment by ViewTrick1002 · 2025-09-24 · in Zig feels more practical than Rust for real-world CLI tools

…[2] https://github.com/cloudwego/goref/blob/main/docs/principle.... [3] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57175

comment by felixge · 2025-09-23 · in Go has added Valgrind support

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/63904 Skimming this issue, it seems like they weren't expecting to be able to use this GC. I know C# couldn't either, at least based on an earlier state of the proposal.

comment by davey48016 · 2025-09-17 · in WASM 3.0 Completed

…But there are problems with supported types; see my other comments. 2) It is improved in 1.25. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/59928 and https://pkg.go.dev/testing#T.Output . Now it is possible to update slogt to provide correct…

comment by aleksi · 2025-09-12 · in Logging in Go with Slog: A Practitioner's Guide

…And some previous discussion. Frustrating! - https://pkg.go.dev/log/slog#example-package-Wrapping - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/59145#issuecomment-14770...

comment by peterldowns · 2025-09-12 · in Logging in Go with Slog: A Practitioner's Guide

Go doesn't yet have native SIMD support, but it actually might in the future: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73787 I think when it's introduced it might be worth discussing that again. Otherwise providing assembly for JSON of all…

comment by nasretdinov · 2025-09-09 · in A new experimental Go API for JSON

…and reach a consistent solution (or as close as possible). This has been my favorite for a while: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45624 4 years to decide on something relatively minor, that right now can be done with a bit of a…

comment by j1elo · 2025-08-23 · in I'm too dumb for Zig's new IO interface

…to copy some files somewhere else, and then delete the directory. Unfortunately, you hit this https://github.com/golang/go/issues/32334 oops, looks like some files are just inaccessible to you, and you cannot copy them. Fortunately, when…

comment by xyzzyz · 2025-08-23 · in Go is still not good

…considered ownership semantics [2] Notable mentions: - No sum types - No string interpolation [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19623 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39477821

comment by Mawr · 2025-08-22 · in Go is still not good

…and try to link with an application, you will have a terrible time. I've ran into this same issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/65050 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuv9A7CJF54&t=440s

comment by metaltyphoon · 2025-08-22 · in Go is still not good

…strings or interfaces meet the alignment requirements. [1]: https://research.swtch.com/gorace [2]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/61236 [3]: https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/CAFxX/atomic128

comment by kbolino · 2025-08-22 · in Go is still not good

…and "slices.Sort", "atomic.Pointer" and "atomic.Value", quite possible a sync/v2 soon https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71076 , etc. The old non-generic versions also aren't deprecated typically, so they're just there to trap people that…

comment by TheDong · 2025-08-22 · in Go is still not good

…clocks and every go program written is littered with terrible bugs due to use of the wrong clock https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914 ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914#issuecomment-15075... might qualify for the worst…

comment by blibble · 2025-08-22 · in Go is still not good

…isn't invalid UTF-8 but invalid UTF-16 (on Windows et al). AIUI Go had nasty bugs around this ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/59971 ) until it recently adopted WTF-8, an encoding that was actually invented for Rust's OsStr. WTF-8 has…

comment by duckerude · 2025-08-22 · in Go is still not good

…is at least memory-aware, in that it endeavors to process objects close to one another together." https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73581

comment by theobeers · 2025-08-22 · in Go is still not good

…Being hungry and in a hurry doesn't help with remembering names. The GitHub discussion is there: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409 but the words I of Russ I cited is here: https://groups.google.com/g/golang-dev/c/73vJrjQTU1M/m/…

comment by bayindirh · 2025-08-19 · in "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec"

A few more links that I collected recently on the topic https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73626 https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Security/Attack... https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...…

comment by nchmy · 2025-08-13 · in Cross-Site Request Forgery

So now there is at least a workaround to preserve the order when processing JSON. Great! [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/27179#issuecomment-22899...

comment by kvemkon · 2025-08-13 · in Go 1.25 Release Notes