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  1. …discussion around time handling that I ever saw. Not sure if java covers all these scenarios. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914
    comment by sandGorgon · 2017-04-24 · in All about java.util.Date
  2. …this when I build Go for Solaris: https://github.com/oracle/solaris-userland/blob/master/compo... https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13616 See also: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16860
    comment by binarycrusader · 2017-04-24 · in Reproducing Go binaries byte by byte
  3. …but we've recently decided we should figure out what the rules are for the x/* packages. That is https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17244 .
    comment by bradfitz · 2017-04-16 · in Golang SSH Security
  4. Beats rsc's commit message [0] by 158 words :) [0] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b902a63ade47cf69218c9b38...
    comment by nishs · 2017-04-14 · in Go compiler: Initial support for concurrent backend compilation
  5. …and time packages. See the Go 1.8.1 milestone [1] on our issue tracker for details. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=milestone%3AGo1.8.1
    comment by 0xmohit · 2017-04-07 · in Go 1.8.1 is released
  6. …an excellent idea, thanks. Looks like the docs are here [1]. We'll try to expand it a little. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/trace/doc.g...
    comment by jamesfisher · 2017-04-06 · in Go tool trace
  7. …shows you how rare it is. There isn't a "C++ in industry" page! I did actually find a Go one here: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers But it's both hilariously long and also obviously not exhaustive.
    comment by IshKebab · 2017-04-02 · in Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam
  8. …versioning, but Google only released recently (end of january) an official tool, still in beta. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
    comment by kodr · 2017-04-01 · in Tor in a safer language: Network team update from Amsterdam
  9. …examples where it has gone okay: https://github.com/nodejs/node/tree/63243bcb330408d511b3945c... https://github.com/golang/go/tree/964639cc338db650ccadeafb74... Where you are writing to non-portable parts of unix you can build non-portable…
    comment by liveoneggs · 2017-03-31 · in How to Write Portable C Without Complicating Your Build
  10. …a round function had several broken implementations, none of which had a direct equality[1]. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/4594
    comment by deathanatos · 2017-03-31 · in Comparing Floating-Point Numbers Is Tricky
  11. …used (even in some newer semi-official Go projects like the dependency management tool[2]) [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18358 [2] https://github.com/golang/dep/issues/296
    comment by slimsag · 2017-03-24 · in 3.5 Years, 500k Lines of Go
  12. …a way that does not (significantly) negatively effect the language's simplicity or compile times. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292
    comment by Zikes · 2017-03-20 · in Changes I would make to Go
  13. There are already talks about compiling Go to wasm: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892
    comment by Zikes · 2017-03-16 · in Why WebAssembly Is Faster Than Asm.js
  14. Personally, I am more excited about the possibility of Go supporting WASM as a target: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892 I already write backends in Go, the hope of writing frontend code in Go is really exciting. All the JS people…
    comment by voidlogic · 2017-03-16 · in Why WebAssembly Is Faster Than Asm.js
  15. Doesn't look like Go does: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14820
    comment by Sean1708 · 2017-03-10 · in Emoji.length == 2
  16. …didn't get anything for free. It just wound up being complex. All just my opinion, of course. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8197#issuecomment-660959...
    comment by binarycrusader · 2017-03-07 · in Two frequently used system calls are ~77% slower on AWS EC2
  17. The compiler got a bit slower: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19386 Those numbers are just for my CLs that fix stack traces but with mid-stack inlining still off. Turning it on makes builds noticeably slower: $ time ./make.bash real:…
    comment by lazard · 2017-03-06 · in Mid-stack inlining in the Go compiler
  18. It's armv6 and golang may be dropping support for it https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17082
    comment by atomi · 2017-03-05 · in Gokrazy – a pure-Go userland for Raspberry Pi 3 appliances
  19. Rob Pike, architect and still active maintainer of Golang, was born in 1956: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/assigned/robpike Longevity requires: 1. staying healthy 2. finding inspiration in your work 3. finding an employer that values…
    comment by everybodyknows · 2017-03-01 · in New Zealand Will Give You a Free Trip If You Agree to a Job Interview
  20. …of a gc port. We need to wait until it gets real stack unwinding and exception handling support. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892
    comment by porjo · 2017-02-28 · in A cartoon intro to WebAssembly
  21. …the VSCode debugger (which uses Delve as the backend) is fantastic. cgo breaks everything[1]. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10776
    comment by zamalek · 2017-02-28 · in I Challenge You to Debug These 7 Lines of Code Under 9 Minutes
  22. …day: "Language implementation[s] become useless when they take formal properties to the extreme." ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19182#issuecomment-28107... )
    comment by akkartik · 2017-02-20 · in Cmd/compile: Go 1.8 regression: sync/atomic loop elided
  23. …addressing the OP's misread of the code. But do note that /may/ change given the GC considerations: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10958
    comment by eternalban · 2017-02-20 · in Cmd/compile: Go 1.8 regression: sync/atomic loop elided
  24. …probably is within spec, given that the atomic package has no documented ordering. But it's coming. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5045
    comment by fmstephe · 2017-02-20 · in Cmd/compile: Go 1.8 regression: sync/atomic loop elided
  25. …to reflect this. Updating the documentation doesn't appear to planned right now. Which is a shame. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5045 Above I have sort of put words into the mouths of the Go team (or some members of it). It's not my…
    comment by fmstephe · 2017-02-20 · in Cmd/compile: Go 1.8 regression: sync/atomic loop elided
  26. The tracking issue is here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17271 Maybe? I think broadly the answer is yes, but not very soon. It'll probably be a timeline like: - Sometime between now and 1.10 / 1.11 - allow vendor outside of GOPATH -…
    comment by shadowmint · 2017-02-17 · in Go 1.8 Release Notes
  27. Did you check the discussion thread for that proposal? It was rejected by the mailing list devs: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292#issuecomment-22198...
    comment by piaste · 2017-02-17 · in Go 1.8 Release Notes
  28. https://github.com/golang/go/commit/025dfb130ae131a8005959af... ↑ can be read without JS enabled
    comment by jwilk · 2017-02-17 · in Go CoC updated to remove “punitive language and anonymous reporting mechanism”
  29. Was already there but disabled due to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18190#issuecomment-26525...
    comment by mkarlsch · 2017-02-16 · in Go 1.8 Release Notes
  30. If you want to see that page rendered: http://htmlpreview.github.io/?https://github.com/golang/go/b...
    comment by zedpm · 2017-02-16 · in Go 1.8 Release Notes
  31. Thanks, we've updated the link from https://github.com/golang/go/releases .
    comment by sctb · 2017-02-16 · in Go 1.8 Release Notes
  32. Also new: callback for client cert selection during TLS handshake. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16626
    comment by sslalready · 2017-02-16 · in Go 1.8 Release Notes
  33. Best text version I found: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/doc/go1.8.html
    comment by matt4077 · 2017-02-16 · in Go 1.8 Release Notes
  34. …a bunch of other intelligent features. For example, try diving into the Go std lib: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/blob/src/net/... (Disclaimer: I'm one of the creators. We currently only support Go officially, but other…
    comment by beliu · 2017-02-13 · in Python moved to GitHub
  35. …about every popular Go open-source library. For example, - Go std lib http package: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go@bb41b4d599f5758... - Popular gorilla/mux routing library: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/gorilla/mux@34bf6d…
    comment by beliu · 2017-02-10 · in Go Web Examples
  36. It's answered here: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18964#issuecomment-27830... Once a release candidate is issued, only documentation changes and changes to address critical bugs should be made. In general the bar for bug fixes at…
    comment by dawkins · 2017-02-08 · in HTTP throughput regression from Go 1.7.5 to 1.8
  37. …regression I'm sure that would happen. However, Go has set forward the way they do releases: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle More specifically: > A minor release is issued to address one or more critical problem for…
    comment by daenney · 2017-02-08 · in HTTP throughput regression from Go 1.7.5 to 1.8
  38. @kmlx commented https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18964#issuecomment-27830... I remember reading about the release cycle here: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle Once a release candidate is issued, only documentation…
    comment by thewhitetulip · 2017-02-08 · in HTTP throughput regression from Go 1.7.5 to 1.8
  39. If I understand the possible culprit commit ( https://github.com/golang/go/commit/faf882d1d427e8c8a9a1be00... ) correctly then real world applications could still be faster than with the older versions on average. E.g. if a request handler…
    comment by Matthias247 · 2017-02-08 · in HTTP throughput regression from Go 1.7.5 to 1.8
  40. Talking about this commit: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/faf882d1d427e8c8a9a1be00...
    comment by jobvandervoort · 2017-02-08 · in HTTP throughput regression from Go 1.7.5 to 1.8
  41. …tools; Go minimizes that. An excellent example is the handling of this bug report(§): https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914 which resulted in this language-change proposal: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/12914-...…
    comment by dilap · 2017-02-05 · in The State of Go
  42. …on Feb 16th. If you're interested in Go, or want to discuss changes in 1.8, find a meetup near you. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-1.8-Release-Party
    comment by zalmoxes · 2017-02-05 · in The State of Go
  43. …in addition to these changes, particularly as this is what the original github issue requested: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12914 This could also be done at very low risk in the `golang.org/x` packages, and the hypothesis that the…
    comment by justinsb · 2017-02-05 · in Proposal: Monotonic Elapsed Time Measurements in Go
  44. …much mem. They are very reactive of course which is something I can never say about OpenJDK. 0 - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18602
    comment by kodablah · 2017-02-02 · in The JVM is not that heavy
  45. …end of a loop. It's behind a flag for performance/testing reasons, but they are working on it. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10958
    comment by kyrra · 2017-01-27 · in Comparing Elixir and Go
  46. …multitasking isn't saying it all. That's still not the entire story: GC & tight loops in Go: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10958 Per process vs per runtime GC: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12043088
    comment by eternalban · 2017-01-27 · in Comparing Elixir and Go
  47. …there, now that the problem is getting more understood! [0]: https://research.swtch.com/go2017 [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17271 [2]: https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2016/saga-go-dependenc...
    comment by FiloSottile · 2017-01-21 · in Hellogopher – Just “git clone” and “make” any Go project
  48. I'd like to bring up another thing for which this is relevant: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Mobile Here's hoping for cross-platform development without JavaScript.
    comment by paxcoder · 2017-01-19 · in Go 1.8 Performance Improvements on ARM (RasPi)
  49. …to force people to work their way. We can still this state of mind in the associated bug report: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17271 .
    comment by vbernat · 2017-01-19 · in My Go Resolutions for 2017
  50. …goroutines. Goroutines blocked of FD's automatically use epoll and schedule based on its results: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/netpoll...
    comment by zbobet2012 · 2017-01-18 · in Rust vs. Go