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…L|R). There has been an extensive amount of discussion about a number of different proposals, e.g. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/54685 , https://github.com/golang/go/issues/57644 , etc., but so far, much like "better" error handling,…

comment by kbolino · 2026-03-02 · in Why Go Can't Try

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The proposal for generic methods for Go has been officially accepted

story by birdculture · 2026-02-28 · 0 comments

yikes: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/url/url.go#... maybe go can do (string v, ok bool) for this or add proper sum types...

comment by fjoaasdfas · 2026-02-22 · in Cloudflare outage on February 20, 2026

…to use ntfs, but a standard library should never. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25997506 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/68678

comment by chad1n · 2026-02-18 · in Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32

…and then a macOS update came out and broke everything, which taught them the error of their ways ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/17490 ). I wonder if this will happen to Zig too.

comment by TazeTSchnitzel · 2026-02-18 · in Windows: Prefer the Native API over Win32

See also https://github.com/golang/go/issues/66653 (that I don’t think is linked from the article)

comment by aleksi · 2026-02-15 · in Inspecting the Source of Go Modules

…as many parts of the stack). >ML-DSA support in Go is not the blocker for the bulk of this work. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/64537#issuecomment-34516...

comment by tjade273 · 2026-01-29 · in Building Cryptographic Agility into Sigstore

…as they have a userspace scheduler things do differ a bit there, but most concepts still apply. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2bd7f15dd7423b6817939b199c... https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2bd7f15dd7423b6817939b199c...

comment by arghwhat · 2026-01-29 · in Spinning around: Please don’t – Common problems with spin locks

Some other ones, in case you aren't aware of. Oberon, https://www.projectoberon.net Go, https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2bd7f15dd7423b6817939b199c... https://github.com/golang/go/blob/2bd7f15dd7423b6817939b199c... D,…

comment by pjmlp · 2026-01-29 · in Writing a .NET Garbage Collector in C# – Part 6: Mark and Sweep

I'm salty they are embracing SIMD, but shove this proposal to the side: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/58610 if you know the ISPC compiler, the proposal is basically that for Go

comment by hbogert · 2026-01-29 · in Go 1.26 Interactive Tour

Some say Mac OS X is (or used to be) slower than Linux at least for certain syscalls. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/28739#issuecomment-10426... https://stackoverflow.com/questions/64656255/why-is-the-c-fu...…

comment by arter45 · 2026-01-25 · in I built a 2x faster lexer, then discovered I/O was the real bottleneck

…or guesses as to why this is the case? EDIT: Go's unicode was actually updated to v17 yesterday: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/dd39dfb534d2badf1bb2d72d...

comment by mroche · 2026-01-24 · in Losing 1½ Million Lines of Go

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Proposal: Generic Methods for Go

story by pansa2 · 2026-01-23 · 0 comments

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Proposal to add generic methods for Go

story by meling · 2026-01-23 · 0 comments

1. "Is the plan to contribute them back to Go?" - No. They won't accept the up-streams. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/30613 2. "How is a one person fork of Go in any way going to ever be more secure than the original which is…

comment by conslit · 2026-01-15 · in A security-oriented Go compiler

…portable: ///usr/bin/env go run "$0" "$@"; exit Note, the exit code isn't passed through due to: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/13440

comment by emersion · 2025-12-30 · in Go away Python

Official stance about supporting interpreter mode for the reference https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24118

comment by age123456gpg · 2025-12-30 · in Go away Python

…so seems like a decent chance it will happen. From: #73608 proposal: all: add bare metal support https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73608 > Go applications built with GOOS=none would run on bare metal, without any underlying OS. All…

comment by typical182 · 2025-12-23 · in Go-boot: bare metal Go UEFI boot manager

https://github.com/golang/go/blob/7ecb1f36acab7b48d77991d58d... Here linker relies on the current memory layout. Changing it requires updating linker code as well.

comment by f311a · 2025-12-21 · in Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers

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Go proposal: spec: sum types based on general interfaces

story by theli0nheart · 2025-12-20 · 0 comments

Issue tracking this “regression” : https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71368

comment by ncruces · 2025-12-20 · in Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers

…some open questions like what to use for a backing data type and what complexity promises to make. https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/47331

comment by kevindamm · 2025-12-20 · in Hash tables in Go and advantage of self-hosted compilers

…isn't sufficient at a technical level, which are brought up by comments on the original proposal: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21865 1) You are almost certainly going to be passing that key material to some other functions, and…

comment by kbolino · 2025-12-13 · in Go Proposal: Secret Mode

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Pure-Go implementation without CGO dependency

story by andrewstetsenko · 2025-12-11 · 0 comments

…You cannot reimplement arenas as the experiment did without special hooks into the runtime. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/arena/arena.go

comment by 9rx · 2025-12-11 · in Golang's big miss on memory arenas

TIL: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257

comment by pstuart · 2025-12-10 · in Golang's big miss on memory arenas

…regions proposal[1], which is what came out of what was learned from tinkering with arenas. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257

comment by 9rx · 2025-12-10 · in Golang's big miss on memory arenas

…on "memory regions" as a successor to the arena concept, without the API "infection" problem: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257

comment by ideal_gas · 2025-12-10 · in Golang's big miss on memory arenas

…And an in-progress proposal to make these various "bubble" functions have consistent semantics: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/76477 (As an aside, the linked blog series is great, but if you're interested in new Go features, I've…

comment by dpifke · 2025-12-10 · in Go Proposal: Secret Mode

I thought the recent error proposal was quite interesting even if it didn't go through: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/71528 My hope is they will see these repeated pain points and find something that fits the error/result/enum issues…

comment by evanmoran · 2025-12-04 · in Thoughts on Go vs. Rust vs. Zig

…I started reading through one of their highlighted examples --- the Go repo ( https://codewiki.google/github.com/golang/go ). This might be the worst high level overview of Go and its repo I've read. Mostly accurate but unhelpfully…

comment by gunsch · 2025-12-02 · in Code Wiki: Accelerating your code understanding

You might find this proposal and the upcoming runtime/secret package interesting. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21865

comment by FiloSottile · 2025-11-20 · in Go Cryptography State of the Union

…e.g. with Go projects, the go linker exposes an -x flag Someday, Go programs won't have to do this: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/50603

comment by ignoramous · 2025-11-20 · in Reproducible C++ builds by logging Git hashes

…been working on a programming language named Go for the last 10 years, please pick another name." https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9

comment by CobrastanJorji · 2025-11-17 · in Project Gemini

…and when they did Go! dirty, Google made clear which one they are. Status changed to Unfortunate https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9#issuecomment-66047478

comment by ModernMech · 2025-11-15 · in Go's Sweet 16

…something like intrinsics even. Fortunately compiler support for intrinsics seems to be on its way! https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73787

comment by ashf023 · 2025-11-05 · in The state of SIMD in Rust in 2025

…to technical infeasibilty. What exactly are the rules for when a thread is garbage collected in W++? [0] github.com/golang/go/issues/19702

comment by bheadmaster · 2025-10-26

…want to optimistically assume otherwise. Is pread() available in the Golang standard library? https://github.com/golang/go/issues/19563 is someone using os.File.ReadAt, which is a method name that makes me even more uncertain. But there's…

comment by kragen · 2025-10-24 · in How memory maps (mmap) deliver faster file access in Go

…the code that would be needed, and I discovered that you can't call real or imag on generic types: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/50937 ]

comment by kbolino · 2025-10-22 · in Go subtleties

The time.After function creates a channel that will be sent a message after x seconds. Or, will it? https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24595 ... even though the value is nil, the type of the variable is a non-nil interface... Go "boxes"…

comment by ignoramous · 2025-10-22 · in Go subtleties

…System" or "Phone Idle") For example, Golang applications had 15 second keep alive until recently: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48622 . Imagine you've opened the website which uses golang web server/proxy and enabled notifications…

comment by ValdikSS · 2025-10-21 · in KDE Connect: Enabling communication between all your devices

The consequences of this genius decision were stuff like this: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16570 Which is why they have already backpedalled on this decision on most platforms. Linux is pretty much the only OS where the syscall ABI…

comment by int_19h · 2025-10-19 · in IDEs we had 30 years ago and lost (2023)

…you can easily experiment to see if this helps your application, without doing a major refactor. In https://github.com/golang/go/issues/64926 it was a bridge-too-far for the Go developers (fair enough) but maybe it could still happen one…

comment by mappu · 2025-10-10 · in CPU cache-friendly data structures in Go

Semi related: there is an active proposal of having a go OS Target of "none" (or noos (No-OS)). https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73608 Sounds like they want to maybe include https://github.com/usbarmory/tamago in the compiler.

comment by kyrra · 2025-10-09 · in Goiaba: An experimental Go compiler, written in Rust

…The reporter actually spent the effort to track it down, turns out it _was_ a Go compiler bug. ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20427 )

comment by SuperQue · 2025-10-09 · in We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

I noticed this when reviewing the linked issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73259#issuecomment-31004... Does the Go team have a natural language bot or is this just comment.contains(“backport”) type stuff?

comment by cmckn · 2025-10-08 · in We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

For the impatient, here's the fix: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/f7cc61e7d7f77521e073137c...

comment by pengaru · 2025-10-08 · in We found a bug in Go's ARM64 compiler

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Go Proposal: architecture-specific SIMD intrinsics

story by kokada · 2025-09-29 · 0 comments

…I'm really hopeful that the SIMD proposals do eventually make it into the language, e.g. this one: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73787#issuecomment-32081...

comment by nasretdinov · 2025-09-25 · in How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV

…hold: > Note, 2023-01-17. This proposal is on hold indefinitely due to serious API concerns. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/51317 Potential successor: https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/70257

comment by sa46 · 2025-09-25 · in How fast is Go? Simulating particles on a smart TV