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  1. …had to do with string/byte slice weirdness), that was fixed pretty quickly and landed in 1.3.1 ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8325 ).
    comment by nemothekid · 2015-08-20 · in Unexpected string to byte casting behavior in Go 1.5
  2. …release. We had some weird corruption of memory issues late in the 1.5RC cycle. It's possible that https://github.com/golang/go/commit/3ae17043f7f29f0d745aa35b... fixed it, but each test for bisection cost us 4 hours, and the bug didn't…
    comment by vessenes · 2015-08-19 · in Go 1.5 is released
  3. …the scheduler picks routines, since it could already be set to a non-default value previously. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/202807789946a8f3f415bf00...
    comment by masklinn · 2015-07-31 · in Go 1.5 Release Notes
  4. …Removing it means one less compiler to maintain. [1] From Go 1.4, the source for the Go C compiler: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/883bc6ed0ea815293fe6309d66...
    comment by ori_b · 2015-07-31 · in Go 1.5 Release Notes
  5. That link doesn't work because of the dot at the end. Correct link: https://github.com/golang/go/network
    comment by mAritz · 2015-07-30 · in GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
  6. …of a repository. Is this possible to do? Yes, just click on the number of forks. It takes you to: https://github.com/golang/go/network Members tab is a simpler enumeration of all forks. https://github.com/golang/go/network/members…
    comment by shurcooL · 2015-07-30 · in GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
  7. …to see the forks of a repository by appending "/network" to the repository URL. (For example, https://github.com/golang/go/network. ) Curious to know how well screen-readers can parse that, if at all :) (BTW, repos with very large numbers…
    comment by napoleond · 2015-07-30 · in GitHub Raises $250M at $2B Valuation
  8. …and is used in production for many things [2]. [1] http://blog.golang.org/open-source [2] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers
    comment by T-A · 2015-07-19 · in At a crossroad: Start using Go language now?
  9. …to make the switch if you want a compiler easier to develop. I'm sure it'll get much better soon. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle
    comment by vruiz · 2015-07-08 · in Go 1.5 Beta
  10. …and immediately, #11081 was opened since it re-broke this. Original issue reported by myself: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8124
    comment by hobarrera · 2015-06-26 · in A Go “clone” of the great and famous Requests library
  11. …the constant corresponds to some value from a delta, or from some other criteria, like here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/54789eff385780c54254f822e0... with the definitions of constants here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/54789eff3…
    comment by 4ad · 2015-06-15 · in Useful Techniques in Go
  12. …you're talking about. Go provides No "methods" for arrays. You have to remember all these tricks : https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks You can't even wrap them into functions or you'd have to write type assertions everywhere.…
    comment by aikah · 2015-06-14 · in Experiments with Ruby and Go
  13. Cgo is written in Go as well: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/cmd/cgo
    comment by mseepgood · 2015-05-27 · in Go in Go
  14. …-- so with go1.4 on windows, one can: # from a git bash, already have go1.4 installed git clone https://github.com/golang/go.git go.git cd go.git/src git checkout master export GOROOT_BOOTSTRAP=$GOROOT time cmd "/c all.bat" real 0m29.078s…
    comment by e12e · 2015-05-27 · in Go in Go
  15. I am most excited for the new SSA backend in go. I have been following commits to it here: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/dev.ssa No idea how long it will take to mature, but I hope there are some decent performance improvements once it…
    comment by andrewchambers · 2015-05-27 · in Go in Go
  16. And go:linkname, go:nointerface, and go:nowritebarrier You can see the lexer for these here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/88c08b06b97296e41fc3069f4a...
    comment by scottpiper · 2015-05-14 · in Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives
  17. …etc. For a set of alternative package managers that are perhaps more in the "spirit of go get", see https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
    comment by lstamour · 2015-05-10 · in Rtop – agentless sever monitoring tool built with Go
  18. We have decided. Don't store pointers to Go objects. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8310
    comment by enneff · 2015-05-10 · in FFI from Go to Rust
  19. …developer about the current and future state of C/Go memory interaction would help clarify this. 1: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8310 2: comment #31 of https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8310
    comment by 1_player · 2015-05-07 · in Go crypto: bridging the performance gap
  20. add it to the list https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
    comment by Queue29 · 2015-05-01 · in Gigo: Pip for Go
  21. …http://erickt.github.io/blog/2014/11/11/benchmarks/ * https://github.com/ugorji/go-codec-bench * https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5683 In my own testing it was faster (even with ffjson) to pre-clean my data in cpython or pypy, and then…
    comment by stock_toaster · 2015-04-23 · in Four days of Go
  22. …code. To enforce this in the linter they literally define a list of initialisms[1]. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#initial... [2]: https://github.com/golang/lint/blob/master/lint.go#L695
    comment by rickhanlonii · 2015-04-22 · in Four days of Go
  23. Seems more appropriate to call these Table Driven Tests: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/TableDrivenTests As they are not truth tables: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_table
    comment by dward · 2015-04-14 · in Elegant tests with Truth Tables
  24. …in the compiler. I would warn you about this link : once it is seen, it cannot be unseen : https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/internal/gc... The irritating part is that this sums up Go mailinglist behaviour quite well. Coding…
    comment by waps · 2015-03-26 · in “Go’s design is a disservice to intelligent programmers”
  25. Hey, sourcegraph looks really neat! Another commenter provided the following example: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go@ac452349e4f40c3... I love the fact that I can hover over anything (primtive, function etc) which surfaces a…
    comment by fizwhiz · 2015-03-22 · in Ask HN: RapGenius for code?
  26. Think the chaps at Sourcegraph are already on it. Here's an example: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go@ac452349e4f40c3...
    comment by tonyhb · 2015-03-21 · in Ask HN: RapGenius for code?
  27. …plausible that they pull in a lot of third-party code to make things easy on themselves. See, e.g., https://github.com/golang/go/issues/1605
    comment by nrr · 2015-03-10 · in Google has several million lines of Go
  28. …of time working with Docker) and I guess I might be missing something. Taking a random method here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/strings/reader.... Some questions that come to me when looking at that code: - In general, why…
    comment by djb_hackernews · 2015-03-06 · in Ask HN: What code do you frequently read?
  29. Golang stdlib is an excellent reference for how to write idiomatic Go code https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src
    comment by shawnps · 2015-03-06 · in Ask HN: What code do you frequently read?
  30. He authored the first 4 commits in the Go repository ;) https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfae... https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0bb0b61d6a85b2a1a33dcbc4... https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0744ac969119db8a0ad3…
    comment by mseepgood · 2015-03-05 · in The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan Donovan
  31. …[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TTj4T2JO42uD5ID9e89oa0sL... [3] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8739
    comment by eloff · 2015-03-03 · in Interview with Salvatore Sanfilippo
  32. Try this: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b986f3e3b54499e63903405c... To be fair, it's extraordinarily slow even in Chrome, but IE11 rendering on this page is pretty bad.
    comment by joshschreuder · 2015-02-26 · in The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
  33. In case is gets fixed, here's what I see, to help diagnose the bug [1]. Both posts point to https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b986f3e3b54499e63903405c... , have the same HN item id=9097404, but different comments counts. [1]…
    comment by WestCoastJustin · 2015-02-23 · in “This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”
  34. …recognise that Go binaries can and should be smaller, but probably not as small as you might hope. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853
    comment by enneff · 2015-02-14 · in The State of Go
  35. …In terms of volume of contributions, for Go, Google employees are by far the most active: https://github.com/golang/go/pulse . In this graph, the 7 top contributors to the project are Google employees. The Rust pulse graph shows the same…
    comment by Artemis2 · 2015-02-13 · in Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline
  36. …of course technically correct. It seems the precision returned by Now may be platform-dependent. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/time/time.go#L7...
    comment by omni · 2015-02-07 · in Go concurrency isn't parallelism: Real world lessons with Monte Carlo sims
  37. The commit message contains some numbers: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/6c7cbf086c34ebb88311ba12...
    comment by cremno · 2015-02-03 · in Golang Duff's devices
  38. …django, rubys rails, and phps laravel. Disclaimer: non elitist node dev, closely watching go [1] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Projects
    comment by lugg · 2015-01-29 · in From Node.js to Go
  39. …is by far the easiest to learn and memorize once you get it. The argument from the issue https://github.com/golang/go/issues/444 > It would be much easier to port preexisting code if you could just copy your time formats over. It's not…
    comment by vruiz · 2015-01-25 · in Go Date Format
  40. …https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java@master/.... And the Go stdlib: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go@master/.GoPacka... And it's all based on srclib, an open-source, multi-language source code analysis framework:…
    comment by sqs · 2015-01-23 · in Show HN: Convert C#/VB into Hyperlinked, Static HTML – Powered by Roslyn
  41. Yes, Ken wrote the compilers: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master/src/cmd/gc?autho... Use your local git(1) for better history browser.
    comment by 4ad · 2015-01-09 · in Go 1.5 Bootstrap Plan
  42. …Permalink to the relevant section of the Go source, with descriptive comments: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/04cf881fbea55d5bca584c78b1...
    comment by dbaupp · 2014-12-24 · in Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Rust vs. Go
  43. …doesn't always apply to all threads (on Linux at least) so extra care does have to be taken. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/1435
    comment by mjquinn · 2014-12-23 · in Docker Image Insecurity
  44. …job! It's bad, trust me. The ping function is just a retouched version of Go's icmp test: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/ipraw_test.... and that's the _good_ part.
    comment by vruiz · 2014-12-19 · in Show HN: Simple monitoring service
  45. They're using one issue tracker for everything: https://github.com/golang/go/issues Issues for sub-repositories like this go there also.
    comment by fhs · 2014-12-11 · in Go 1.4 is released
  46. Here's a search of the go source for use of that: https://github.com/golang/go/search?p=3&q=%22for+range%22&ty... Most of them are tests, but I see a couple genuine use cases: 1. Draining a channel until it closes. 2. Since range of a…
    comment by Laremere · 2014-12-11 · in Go 1.4 is released
  47. …like it's been pushed to the canonical git repo or Github just yet: https://go.googlesource.com/go https://github.com/golang/go/releases Aside from that, this is yet another great release! :)
    comment by bgentry · 2014-12-11 · in Go 1.4 is released
  48. …we could look at for inspiration. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE [3] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master...
    comment by kibwen · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  49. I've made several CLs like this commit [1], yet I am not seeing myself listed under contributors. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/912ec1990bd09f8fc128c3fa...
    comment by shurcooL · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  50. …For instance "spaolacci" is #86 with 8 commits, he's only ever been an author not a committer: https://github.com/golang/go/commits?author=spaolacci
    comment by masklinn · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub