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  1. …abuse it. I'm 50/50 on that. 8. I agree about sorting being "clumsy". This is being worked on at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16721 . 9. I agree about Go not providing anything builtin or well-known for dependency versioning, but I…
    comment by ngrilly · 2016-08-25 · in Why I Don't Like Golang
  2. …issue is unfortunate - it can't be changed without potentially breaking existing programs. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11513 and https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-dev/c9UUfASVP... for some background.
    comment by rogpeppe1 · 2016-08-22 · in What Golang Is and Is Not
  3. …Expression evaluation order is not defined, and varies between compilers. ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15905 )
    comment by oconnor663 · 2016-08-22 · in What Golang Is and Is Not
  4. …want to run with? In C#: toCheck.StartsWith(prefix) Meanwhile in Golandia, this is still an issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16721#issuecomment-24015... ...and I haven't felt this kind of pinch when using C#, ever. But what do I…
    comment by easuter · 2016-08-21 · in What Golang Is and Is Not
  5. …sure. But then it irritates me to copy paste stuff. This statement is ill-informed. Have you seen https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292 and https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/15292-... ? Have you considered all the…
    comment by shurcooL · 2016-08-18 · in Go Proposal: first-class support for sorting slices
  6. …services on an enormous scale - Google (obvi), Dropbox, Cloudflare... here, better than copy/paste: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers You're going to recognize an awful lot of those companies. Edit: not sure if it counts, but the…
    comment by themartorana · 2016-08-16 · in Go Proposal: first-class support for sorting slices
  7. Thanks for the reminder. I've filed: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16736 We actually try hard not to do platform-specific stuff, but in this case it seemed worth it, considering the problems people were having with cert validations…
    comment by bradfitz · 2016-08-16 · in Go 1.7 is released
  8. This sort of visualization would be nice for LLVM IR! The Go implementation is located here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...
    comment by jevinskie · 2016-08-16 · in Looking at your program’s structure in Go 1.7
  9. https://github.com/golang/go/commit/a62ae9f62fcfca02075b70e6... > SystemCertPool returns an error on Windows. Maybe it's fixable later This doesn't inspire confidence in Go as a cross platform language which is at version 1.7. If this is…
    comment by blinkingled · 2016-08-16 · in Go 1.7 is released
  10. …instead. Alternatively, you can not include the net package. Search for systemConf().canUseCgo() https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/lookup_unix...
    comment by loosescrews · 2016-08-16 · in Go 1.7 is released
  11. He is. Any clue where to start? Edit: maybe here? https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PortingPolicy
    comment by 0xdeadbeefbabe · 2016-08-11 · in Go 1.7 Release Candidate 6 is released
  12. …Sierra beta 4 is released [0], see also this issue [1] [0] https://golang.org/dl/#go1.7rc5 [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16579
    comment by okket · 2016-08-03 · in MacOS Sierra Beta
  13. …concurrency hell. [1] https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-complete-guide-to-golang-net... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16100
    comment by zzzcpan · 2016-08-02 · in I Love Go; I Hate Go
  14. …last element of the slice and shrink the slice by one element. Also fun, it can leak memory. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks
    comment by masklinn · 2016-08-02 · in I Love Go; I Hate Go
  15. Now there is an issue, even with a first hint of a fix (not tried yet) https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16570
    comment by okket · 2016-08-02 · in MacOS Sierra Beta
  16. …Java's Maven or Node's npm' [1] https://engineeredweb.com/blog/2015/go-1.5-vendor-handling/ [2] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools [3] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1rMoZ0rmpxw6dShalHnkuPtia...
    comment by niftich · 2016-07-29 · in Go Packaging Proposal Process
  17. …usage examples too, so we automatically show all uses of any function check out: - https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag... - https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag...
    comment by rohanpai · 2016-07-21 · in Introducing Stack Overflow Documentation Beta
  18. From the context it's obvious that 0x0 is right. AX must be 32 bits (or 64 bits) wide. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/fad2bbdc6a686a20174d2e73cf...
    comment by a1k0n · 2016-07-18 · in Httpoxy – A CGI application vulnerability
  19. https://groups.google.com/forum/m/#!topic/golang-announce/7J... 1.6.3 will include https://github.com/golang/go/commit/fad2bbdc6a686a20174d2e73... in addition to the security fix.
    comment by zalmoxes · 2016-07-18 · in Httpoxy – A CGI application vulnerability
  20. …of the other curves is almost comically vulnerable to timing attacks---compare [1] to [2]. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/crypto/elliptic... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/crypto/elliptic...
    comment by pbsd · 2016-07-16 · in Copy and paste-friendly Go crypto
  21. …dependencies. Instead, commit the glide.lock file and glide can fetch everything for you. ---- 1. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/4594#issuecomment-660733... 2. https://github.com/Masterminds/glide
    comment by quacker · 2016-07-13 · in Asciinema 1.3 Switches from Go Back to Python
  22. …Sourcegraph, and you can see (e.g.) all the repos that call http.NewRequest in Go ( https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag... ) or lots of usages of Joda-Time DataTime in Java ( https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/JodaO…
    comment by sqs · 2016-06-29 · in Making open source data more available
  23. …from evolving, as can be seen in the case of the context package (see 'Frozen' in this post https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14660#issue-138695431 ) While the above poster didn't explain his problem clearly, it is a valid complaint.
    comment by TheDong · 2016-06-24 · in Proposed New Go GC: Transaction-Oriented Collector
  24. …Note: I'm a total newbie at Go and Windows API so every bit of abstraction was a bless to me. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14959 [1] https://github.com/golang/sys/tree/master/windows
    comment by ssebastianj · 2016-06-23 · in Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go
  25. So just some quick googling points to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9601 which seems like it's still an open issue. Either way if you're going to build UI for Windows C#/QT with an C FFI is the more sane way to go. Back when I worked…
    comment by vvanders · 2016-06-23 · in Simple Windows GUI Application Written in Go
  26. …be a little repetition reading through it, but I find it to be pretty easier to read/understand. https://github.com/golang/go/tree/release-branch.go1.6/src/g... Also, I have read (at least parts of) the book, "Engineering a Compiler",…
    comment by brettlangdon · 2016-06-21 · in Show HN: Writing my first interpreter in C for fun
  27. …about that. This reply is meant to be smugness-free. My example above is the semi-official one from https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks . The `oop` expression contains a reference to i, and so it needs to be in the loop body. I'm…
    comment by oconnor663 · 2016-06-08 · in Program your next server in Go
  28. …is "no" for Ruby, Go, Scala, and TypeScript. https://github.com/ruby/ruby/graphs/contributors https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors https://github.com/scala/scala/graphs/contributors https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/graphs…
    comment by bcherny · 2016-06-07 · in Show HN: New calendar app idea
  29. …cegraph.com/github.com/square/okhttp/-/def/JavaA... (semantic code browsing for Java) https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag... (http.NewRequest used in 8801 repositories) Sourcegraph supports Go and Java right now.…
    comment by sqs · 2016-06-07 · in Toward a URL for every function
  30. …is used, check out the usages list on the right side, which takes you here: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/info/GoPackag... .
    comment by sqs · 2016-06-07 · in Toward a URL for every function
  31. …threshold yet. We'll release Ruby when we can do it almost as well as Go (e.g., https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/def/GoPackage... ).
    comment by sqs · 2016-06-07 · in Toward a URL for every function
  32. Here's an example: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/def/GoPackage...
    comment by malchow · 2016-06-07 · in Toward a URL for every function
  33. …[0]. package main func main() { println("Hello, world") } That compiles to 1.1M using go 1.5. 0. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853
    comment by neopallium · 2016-06-02 · in Why is a Rust executable large?
  34. …appear to be Brian Kernighan playing with the syntax and styling for a C "hello world" program: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?page=810 No one would say those commits show he was working on Go as a "personal project" during…
    comment by laughinghan · 2016-05-16 · in One year of Rust
  35. …as misleading as saying that Go is 40 years old just because its commit graph goes back that far ( https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors ).
    comment by kibwen · 2016-05-16 · in One year of Rust
  36. …in rewriting existing UNIX utils in a safer modern language. Go is also a force on the server: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers - that's moved a long way from just that little language from Google. From what I've read from Hacker…
    comment by hizanberg · 2016-05-07 · in .NET Core RC2 – Improvements, Schedule, and Roadmap
  37. …https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/_http_server.... https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/server... The benchmark is almost equivalent to testing raw eventloop performance against a complete htt
    comment by halayli · 2016-05-04 · in Uvloop: Fast Python networking
  38. …doFollowingRedirects when I want to see where the initial (and likely only) request is made. [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/client...
    comment by edgyswingset · 2016-05-02 · in Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?
  39. The change referred to is Robert Griesemer's change to use a new binary export format [0] [0] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7538b1db8ec0d82a623847fe...
    comment by Zariel · 2016-05-01 · in Go devel compile times below 2x Go 1.4.3
  40. …discussed on HN [2]. However, I can't find the corresponding commit in the Juju repo. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/af6aa0fd745d48c2db70712e... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11593663
    comment by apeace · 2016-05-01 · in Go devel compile times below 2x Go 1.4.3
  41. …all sorts of functionality (HTTP, crypto, libc-esque functionality) in a fairly minimal way: https://github.com/golang/go
    comment by tekacs · 2016-05-01 · in Ask HN: What are examples of GitHub repositories with high code quality?
  42. …( https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/627 ) 2. proposal: generic programming facilities ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292 ) 3. Proper tabs for open files ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/224 ) Can't say I'm…
    comment by shoyer · 2016-04-27 · in GitHub has 11,995,200 open issues
  43. …about a company that can't upgrade past Go 1.4 because newer versions have way worse GC throughput: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14161 Their recommended solution is, "give the Go app a lot more memory". Well, now they're back in the…
    comment by sievebrain · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  44. …the size) of actual live data. That's a big hit right there. And yes, you have to tune the Go GC: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14161 Even when Java gets value types, it won't magically slash memory usage in half. Pointer overheads…
    comment by sievebrain · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  45. …In other words, the issue is not pause time, it's also throughput. And Go users do tune their GC: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14161
    comment by sievebrain · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  46. > Unfortunately, it seems they don't keep older specs around(!) https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master/doc/go_spec.html
    comment by enneff · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  47. …- I opened an issue for considering something like this for go https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15295 hopefully I didn't err in posting it :)
    comment by inglor · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  48. …the default response was "we're thinking about it." Now, it's "let's all talk about it." [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292
    comment by andrewstuart2 · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  49. …context would probably be added to the standard library and integrated with net/http.Request: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14660 How is this issue solved in Erlang/Elixir? > Coercing Go structs into JSON and vice versus was just…
    comment by ngrilly · 2016-04-10 · in Why Go gets criticized so much
  50. …{ for { } } It stalls after about three seconds on go version 1.6. Here's the issue on github: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/543
    comment by it · 2016-04-09 · in Why Erlang Matters