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1,947 mentions on Hacker News by 1,181 people: 291 stories, 1,656 comments · first 2014-12-08 · latest 2026-10-22

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  1. ▲ 8
    Proposal: Alternate spelling of .go in file names
    story by markusw · 2023-05-04 · 0 comments
  2. ▲ 2
    Golang: Proposal: Spec: Redefine Range Loop Variables in Each Iteration
    story by stefankuehnel · 2023-04-27 · 0 comments
  3. …users' explicit consent is a bad idea, no matter how "non-intrusive" and "helpful" it is. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
    comment by bheadmaster · 2023-04-27 · in Dropbox telemetry can't be disabled
  4. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44226 If you're just looking for signs of consensus that issue describes why the Go pgp package is deprecated - it is very critical of pgp. Interesting read too.
    comment by burnished · 2023-04-21 · in Introducing 'Trusted Publishers'
  5. ▲ 3
    Runtime: Possible memory corruption caused by CL 304470
    story by lopkeny12ko · 2023-04-18 · 1 comment
  6. Still waiting on io_uring in the Go stdlib: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/31908 "Unplanned"
    comment by candiddevmike · 2023-04-12 · in Using io_uring for network I/O
  7. …follow-up features that would have been there at 1.0 if generics were added, e.g. iterators [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/48287
  8. …some issues [0] which I assume were caused by the same $GOPATH change you're talking about. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44840#issuecomment-12896...
  9. …As a result, defer can now be used in performance-critical code without overhead concerns. EDIT: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14939 I believe is the main tracking bug for this.
  10. …Funnily the actual Go JSON decoder code ends up doing something similar during scanning: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/encoding/json/d...
    comment by donio · 2023-03-29 · in Awk Technical Notes
  11. ▲ 2
    Go issue: stop using direct syscalls on OpenBSD
    story by alpb · 2023-03-24 · 0 comments
  12. OP here, How are you doing caching without a mod time? https://github.com/golang/go/issues/44854 Are you re-naming or hashing for cache clearing?
  13. …this from the Go side. The original issue was this one: runtime: tight loops should be preemptible https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10958 > it's possible to write a tight loop (e.g., a numerical kernel or a spin on an atomic) with no…
  14. Related: "The slog / Structured Logging Proposal is Accepted" https://github.com/golang/go/issues/56345#issuecomment-14705...
  15. ▲ 1
    Slog proposal accepted for Go 1.21
    story by philosopher1234 · 2023-03-16 · 0 comments
  16. ▲ 1
    Telemetry proposal for Golang is now opt-in
    story by galdor · 2023-03-09 · 0 comments
  17. It is (non-sarcastically) good to see the Go team changing their opinion on the usefulness of it: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16537
    comment by aleksi · 2023-03-09 · in Code coverage for Go integration tests
  18. ▲ 2
    Golang telemetry proposal: now opt in
    story by remus · 2023-03-06 · 0 comments
  19. …code execution during `go get`. Now - there have been bugs which permit code execution (like https://github.com/golang/go/issues/22125 ) but they are treated as security vulnerabilities and bugs. Of course, you're right about Python.
  20. …or gzipped file instead[1]. [0]: https://tinygo.org/docs/reference/lang-support/stdlib/ [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/WebAssembly#reducing-the-s...
  21. …and being so adamant about it made me reconsider the extent I'm going to use Go in the future. [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409#discussioncom...
  22. How come https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409 Blabs on about the bureaucratic/ policy ends of collecting data from me and NOT what they want to impact? Geez not even one example of where a little data could've helped golang…
  23. …information they need to work efficiently and effectively " which does not mention project size. https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409 I'm guessing he implicitly means "larger open source projects" but his statement reads like an…
    comment by uberman · 2023-02-13 · in Google killed my hope and my dreams
  24. https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/googles_go_programmin... https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
    comment by compressedgas · 2023-02-13 · in Google killed my hope and my dreams
  25. …the actual information Go telemetry might contain? There's no telemetry for now, it's a proposal: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
  26. …that all comments opposing the telemetry are hidden is bullshit, as a simple check will confirm: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
  27. …the claims of bad faith. [1] https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/10/googles_go_programmin... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
  28. Discussion was here: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409 I think this assertion and the various sentiment around it is nonsensical and partly demonstrates why "they" were actively moderating as they attempted to have a rational…
  29. https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34707583 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34750782
  30. …at the end of the day and take some time to think about the feedback we've gathered so far. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409#discussioncom...
    comment by typical182 · 2023-02-11 · in The design of transparent telemetry
  31. …the way the Go team have been reacting to the "flagging" on the telemetry discussion itself !! [1] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409#discussioncom... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409#discussioncom...
    comment by traceroute66 · 2023-02-11 · in The design of transparent telemetry
  32. …and blog posts and making inaccurate conclusions 2. Violating the Go Community Code of Conduct ( https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409#discussioncom... )
    comment by verdverm · 2023-02-11 · in The design of transparent telemetry
  33. …link in the post is relevant to mention. Pointing to the Github discussion related to this idea: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
    comment by rapnie · 2023-02-11 · in The design of transparent telemetry
  34. Telemetry in the Go toolchain: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
  35. ▲ 118
    Telemetry in the Go Toolchain
    story by h1x · 2023-02-08 · 7 comments
  36. ▲ 1
    First Commit of Golang (1972)
    story by inxode · 2023-02-07 · 0 comments
  37. ▲ 1
    Proposal: Log/slog: structured, leveled logging · Issue #56345 · Golang/go
    story by todsacerdoti · 2023-02-06 · 0 comments
  38. …which substitutes strings.Split() or other mentioned functions from the standard library. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/86c4b0a6ec70b07ab49d3813a5... [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/86c4b0a6ec70b07ab49d3813a5...
    comment by valyala · 2023-02-04 · in Go 1.20 released
  39. …as needed. In fact, now that generics make it possible, the Go team has discussed using iterators ( https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/54245 ), which would benefit strings.Split even further in addition to all the other…
    comment by 0x62c1b43e · 2023-02-03 · in Go 1.20 released
  40. Useful enough to be included in the standard library. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57436#issuecomment-14125...
    comment by oauea · 2023-02-02 · in Go 1.20 released
  41. We likely need full coverage of the "tricks" documented on https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks into a generics package as well. Yes, https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/slices gives some of that, but likely the rest should be…
    comment by kyrra · 2023-02-01 · in Go 1.20 released
  42. …volume security updates; I think few people care, as Windows 8 is used less than Windows 7 today. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57003 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57004
    comment by arp242 · 2023-02-01 · in Go 1.20 released
  43. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57004 Nothing concrete as it seems. It means that new releases are no longer tested with the old versions of Windows on their builders, and if you open a bug report about a problem with an unsupported…
    comment by mseepgood · 2023-02-01 · in Go 1.20 released
  44. …in a future version. The library contains generics based helper functions for working with maps. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57436#issuecomment-14125... https://pkg.go.dev/golang.org/x/exp/maps…
    comment by donio · 2023-02-01 · in Go 1.20 released
  45. ▲ 2
    A proposal for a Go WASI/WASM compilation target
    story by babelfish · 2023-02-01 · 0 comments
  46. Do you believe they faked the commit times on https://github.com/golang/go/issues/53644 , which added the behavior required for the fix six months before the sr.ht announcement?
  47. …has that privilege, and you're not doing the situation any favors by torchbearing for jerks. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
  48. …to see how thoroughly documented this file is. Reminds me of poking around the SQLite codebase. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/6b8b7823c7fd9f3f2317f65712...
  49. …I found this answer. I can't find the original announcement, but I found the accepted Go proposal: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24543 I remember that being the straw that made me drop Elixir (which I love, to be clear). Go excels in…
  50. …from transitional to nontransitional processing and the relevant issue is quite informative: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/46001