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  1. Looking at the issue tracker ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+m... ) looks like a windows DLL preload attack & another unspecified bug (currently a placeholder). If we take a look at the release branch though,…
    comment by codys · 2016-04-08 · in [security] Go 1.5.4 and Go 1.6.1 pre-announcement
  2. …They will be followed by a more significant 1.6.2 point release that will fix a number of issues: https://github.com/golang/go/issues?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=milesto... Cheers, Andrew, on behalf of the Go team
    comment by codezero · 2016-04-08 · in [security] Go 1.5.4 and Go 1.6.1 pre-announcement
  3. …actor model implementation with preemptive scheduler. It is one of the open issues with Golang. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11462 User aclements notes: > @GoranP, you can think of the Go scheduler as being partially preemptive.…
    comment by amelius · 2016-04-08 · in Why Erlang Matters
  4. …in a not so distant future. For background: - https://github.com/bradfitz/http2/issues/59 - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14141
    comment by tsenart · 2016-04-05 · in HTTP/2 load testing with Vegeta
  5. …dropbox, docker, sainsburys, gov.uk, booking.com. Not many hipsters. There's a longer list here https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers
    comment by grey-area · 2016-04-01 · in On GitHub’s Programming Languages
  6. …time I looked. See this discussion from author of hugo asking how to use it (always a bad sign!): https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14285 I think I prefer just rendering the view separately and then rendering it into the layout, it's…
    comment by grey-area · 2016-03-30 · in Building Web Apps in Go
  7. What makes you think so? Go has pretty solid native drivers for most SQL databases out there: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SQLDrivers
    comment by dguaraglia · 2016-03-28 · in Show HN: GoJava – Server/desktop Java bindings to Go packages
  8. …note that you can catch a panic in go, and use it as some kind of exceptions if you really must. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PanicAndRecover#usage-in-a...
    comment by wfsfw4w44 · 2016-03-28 · in Building Web Apps in Go
  9. …I can tell (and I'm not sure why anyone would want to do it in the first place beyond debugging): https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13761#issuecomment-16772...
    comment by Zancarius · 2016-03-24 · in What fucking programming language should I use?
  10. …in to the standard library if a strong enough case is made, for example in the context package ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14660 ).
    comment by mtalantikite · 2016-03-23 · in NPM and Left-Pad: Have We Forgotten How to Program?
  11. …https://github.com/kardianos/govendor . As of go 1.5, its supported by the language itself: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
    comment by pm90 · 2016-03-19 · in Some Rookie Mistakes in Go
  12. Perhaps one of these resources can show more advanced use cases: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Books Have you read The Go Programming Language by Donovan and Kernighan? - Book Site: http://www.gopl.io/ - Book Example Source Code:…
    comment by dpflan · 2016-03-04 · in Go by Example
  13. …better that might give you more of an idea of why I'm suggesting that the current design has flaws: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14601 Given how much weight channels are in the language specification and memory model, it would be…
    comment by zeeboo · 2016-03-02 · in Go channels are bad
  14. …http://pp.ipd.kit.edu/firm/ [2] http://www.christianwimmer.at/Publications/Wimmer10a/Wimmer1... [3] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int...
    comment by UniQP · 2016-03-02 · in Golang dev.ssa branch merged into tip
  15. …Single Assignment Form" [2], which does not require a dominator tree (or a liveness analysis). [1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/compile/int... [2] http://pp.info.uni-karlsruhe.de/uploads/publikationen/braun1...
    comment by UniQP · 2016-03-02 · in Golang dev.ssa branch merged into tip
  16. …been a version of yacc in the go source tree (that works with go, not c) for at least 11 months. https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/cmd/yacc
    comment by nordsieck · 2016-02-24 · in LL and LR in Context: Why Parsing Tools Are Hard (2013)
  17. …of huge changes to the language, I doubt very much it would, but it probably will happen sometime. https://github.com/golang/go/issues?q=is%3Aopen+is%3Aissue+l... As another datapoint, here are the answers of the team to a question on what…
    comment by grey-area · 2016-02-18 · in Go 1.6 is Released
  18. As you can see on https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/NativeClient , there is no PNaCl support, which means it is only available in the Chrome Web Store.
    comment by iso-8859-1 · 2016-02-18 · in Go 1.6 is Released
  19. If it works in Go 1.5.3 but not Go 1.6, definitely consider filing an issue. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md
    comment by nathany · 2016-02-17 · in Go 1.6 is Released
  20. …and I'd studied On Lisp. One of the initial test cases was Paul Graham's accumulator generator: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/0f4f2a6/test/closure.go Javascript: no. At that time (Feb 2009) I doubt I even knew Javascript had…
    comment by rsc · 2016-02-17 · in Show HN: Go-git – low-level and extensible Git client library in Go
  21. this case added to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14325
    comment by pella · 2016-02-14 · in Go vs. Swift vs. C++ microbenchmark
  22. …is reading this thread and wants that they can follow the guidelines for contributions and look at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5968 EDIT: It's also possible to supply CloneFlags though the SysProcAttr struct, e.g., CLONE_NEWIPC,…
    comment by sebcat · 2016-02-09 · in Writing my own init with Go
  23. I've seen goto used in golang stdlib for error handling https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/strconv/atoi.go...
    comment by dominotw · 2016-02-08 · in “GOTO Considered Harmful” Considered Harmful (1987) [pdf]
  24. …If you're interested in meeting Go devs in your area next month find a 1.6 release party near you: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-1.6-release-party . Unofficial theme song: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNat6iJB5So
    comment by travjones · 2016-01-28 · in Go 1.6 Release Candidate 1 is released
  25. Because this is my workflow for it: $ brew reinstall go --head ==> Reinstalling go ==> Cloning https://github.com/golang/go.git Updating /Library/Caches/Homebrew/go--git Username for ' https://github.com' : ^C
    comment by lazyjones · 2016-01-28 · in GitHub Outage
  26. …well. Is it possible to use git submodules in vendor directory? Looks like it is possible [1]. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12573
    comment by anonx · 2016-01-26 · in Code.google.com was shut down, Go packaging is broken
  27. Same on https://github.com/golang/go
    comment by moondowner · 2016-01-11 · in IBM ported Go to s390x mainframes
  28. …still prefer C++ and I rarely see Rust job. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822019 [2] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Courses Edit: I may be biased since I enjoy programming in Go.
    comment by namelezz · 2016-01-08 · in Why I love Rust
  29. …about http client support for Expect: 100-continue, and it looks like a fix was merged in October: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/dab143c8820151538fea908e... Or are there still problems that aren't mentioned in that issue?
    comment by infogulch · 2015-12-18 · in Go 1.6 Beta Released
  30. They moved it to 1.7 because it didn't get completed in time. You can see the source code here: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/dev.ssa (In particular, https://github.com/golang/go/compare/dev.ssa is interesting). It's not clear to me…
    comment by iends · 2015-12-18 · in Go 1.6 Beta Released
  31. Ah good, I've been waiting on a fix for one nasty bug in particular: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3665 I'm also interested in the vendoring support. I've been using godep and I haven't really taken a look at the vendoring in 1.5 yet…
    comment by jcadam · 2015-12-18 · in Go 1.6 Beta Released
  32. …a "releases" feed, though it only links to the tagged commit (it's essentially a feed dump of https://github.com/golang/go/releases ) you at least get a notification of new releases: https://github.com/golang/go/releases.atom
    comment by masklinn · 2015-12-18 · in Go 1.6 Beta Released
  33. …doing so it leaves it up to the client to determine when it is safe to automatically redirect." 1. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/client... 2. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9348#issuecomment-867903...
    comment by bkeroack · 2015-12-08 · in Choosing an HTTP Status Code
  34. Well, they believed it was worth adding something (from a commit today): https://github.com/golang/go/commit/50c5042047be3af36e7bb478...
    comment by binarycrusader · 2015-12-07 · in Are Go maps sensitive to data races?
  35. …the heap and marking anyway and end up doing nothing. I know they've made optimizations like here https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9477 but I haven't followed it up and gave it another look yet.
    comment by pxue · 2015-11-23 · in Fast HTTP package for Go
  36. You can use Go with gomobile https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Mobile#sdk-applications-an... . It works okay but the lack of support for exporting slices really limits things.
    comment by rhodysurf · 2015-11-23 · in Perfect – Server-Side Swift
  37. Also, it's not C it's B. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7...
    comment by billrobertson42 · 2015-11-22 · in Show HN: First Commit – find the first commit of any GitHub project
  38. …2008!). All the old commits do is author a c "hello world" program. Any idea why those are there? https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?page=727 EDIT: I just noticed that they're labeled as being by Brian Kernighan. What? EDIT2: Oh,…
    comment by 542458 · 2015-11-22 · in Show HN: First Commit – find the first commit of any GitHub project
  39. …the randomization happens only at the beginning of a range call: range init's the hashmap iterator: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/6327e8dc69c47d6355e2623cc4... hashmap iterator init sets a random starts:…
    comment by AYBABTME · 2015-11-22 · in Spectro: Adventures in Go
  40. It's still in its early days though from Google: https://github.com/golang/mobile https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Mobile
    comment by frik · 2015-11-15 · in What will be the legacy of Go?
  41. Seems like FUD. 549 contributors according to GitHub. Open Source. Fork it. https://github.com/golang/go
    comment by nnutter · 2015-11-15 · in What will be the legacy of Go?
  42. How? Its an open source project: https://github.com/golang/go
    comment by bsg75 · 2015-11-10 · in Six years of Go
  43. I am afraid there isn't. In fact, it's called a "slice trick" and listed in Go wiki: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks
    comment by tucnak · 2015-10-28 · in Why Go is a poorly designed language (from a perspective of Go lover)
  44. …that Panic was just used to print a message and close a program with a non-zero status. 1. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PanicAndRecover
    comment by anonfunction · 2015-10-15 · in Show HN: Golang statistics package with 100% code coverage
  45. …2. http://dave.cheney.net/2012/01/18/why-go-gets-exceptions-rig... 3. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Errors
    comment by anonfunction · 2015-10-15 · in Show HN: Golang statistics package with 100% code coverage
  46. …manual packing you defined today may or may not hold across platforms or future go revisions. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10014
    comment by masklinn · 2015-10-09 · in Padding is hard
  47. …the wire. Unless you're using cgo maybe , I don't know if (or that) cgo provides any guarantee. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10014
    comment by masklinn · 2015-10-09 · in Padding is hard
  48. …test cases or the runtime integration[0]) and the shootout C sources (for bench tests?). [0] https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/runtime/cgo
    comment by masklinn · 2015-09-13 · in Warming up to Go
  49. That seems to be an issue with the playground: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12388 It seems counter-intuitive to me that the behavior of time.Parse would depend on a "system location", but apparently it's by design.
    comment by teraflop · 2015-09-10 · in Time in Go
  50. …reported to Apple years ago. Fortunately, it seems that it might finally be fixed in El Capitan: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6047#issuecomment-135591...
    comment by cespare · 2015-08-28 · in Profiling and Optimizing in Go