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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. …a hundred pages of dense technical details Which document are you referring to? The one linked in https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301 is only about 600 lines: https://github.com/golang/proposal/blob/master/design/24301-...
  2. ▲ 8
    The vgo proposal has been accepted
    story by nhooyr · 2018-05-21 · 0 comments
  3. …was on the homepage or hacker news, vgo was marked as accepted. It's the timing I find amusing. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301#issuecomment-39076...
  4. …they were working on wasm for Go, but it looks like there was some progress during the last months: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18892
  5. …Russ Cox, https://research.swtch.com/vgo-intro "FAQ: Why is the proposal not “use Dep”?", Russ Cox, https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301#issuecomment-37122...
    comment by ngrilly · 2018-05-15 · in An Analysis of vgo
  6. …dependencies. More info for those who are looking for more context: https://research.swtch.com/vgo https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301 Whether you agree or disagree, its novel research in this field and excellent technical writing…
    comment by pa7ch · 2018-05-15 · in An Analysis of vgo
  7. …* GOPATH is going to go away soon. Once vgo gets fully baked in to the language. Probably by 1.12 - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/4719 . * There is a one-line installer called "getgo" which installs Go. However, it needs further…
    comment by agnivade · 2018-05-14 · in How to start a Go project in 2018
  8. …you'd like to try it out (or contribute!), I recommend the following links: The official Go issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24301 And Russ Cox's Tour of vgo: https://research.swtch.com/vgo-tour Which is part of Russ Cox's vgo…
    comment by aodin · 2018-05-14 · in How to start a Go project in 2018
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    Program Causes Go Compiler to Hang Indefinitely
    story by nathanjcochran · 2018-05-05 · 0 comments
  10. …recommendations? What's your favorite resource for learning golang that helped you the most? [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Learn
    comment by shekhar101 · 2018-04-30 · in Hello Go
  11. ▲ 9
    Introduction to go compiler
    story by guofangli · 2018-04-27 · 1 comment
  12. …for numerical computing. There was such a push with implementing [multidimensional arrays in Go]( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6282 ) but it looks like it's been shot down more than once. When using Python and R interactively, the…
  13. …Go had the same "issue." [0] The ticket was eventually closed with status "unfortunate" [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9
    comment by adrianmalacoda · 2018-04-19 · in Grasshopper – A coding app for beginners
  14. …from github … And `vgo`, while promising, is still a protype not ready for production[0]. [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/vgo#current-state
    comment by littlestymaar · 2018-04-14 · in Go gets preliminary WebAssembly support
  15. Currently it's not supported, see https://github.com/golang/go/blob/a9ba3e30acf004a57fbc1288d5...
    comment by caspervonb · 2018-04-14 · in Go gets preliminary WebAssembly support
  16. ▲ 1
    Tracking issue for Go WASM support
    story by hendler · 2018-04-07 · 0 comments
  17. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12061 "Mark termination does not have to rescan stacks that haven’t executed since the last scan" With pre-emptive scheduling of OS threads, you potentially dirty a ton more stacks, and have to scan them…
    comment by jashmatthews · 2018-03-29 · in Proposal: Non-cooperative goroutine preemption
  18. That will work for direct dependencies but not dependencies of dependencies. See https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24500
  19. …not updated for you'll need to start tracking those yourself. There's an issue touching on this at https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24500 Other packages managers use the opposite of minimal version selection. Many of them even have a…
  20. …we can go back to being productive instead of fighting dependency management problems all day. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
    comment by lobster_johnson · 2018-03-26 · in A Proposal for Package Versioning in Go
  21. …understanding. n = copy(p, b.buf[b.r:b.w]) Oh better go to the top and see what those are again... https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/bufio/bufio.go#...
  22. …time I look at Go code, it’s like I’m back in high school using Borland Turbo C all over again. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#variabl...
  23. …[3] https://github.com/jmoiron/sqlx [4] https://github.com/jinzhu/gorm [5] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SQLDrivers
  24. It's in ast.go ( https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/go/ast/ast.go ). Look how Node, Expr etc. are interfaces, with concrete struct implementations. The interfaces don't do much, only provide position information.
    comment by lobster_johnson · 2018-03-05 · in Go best practices, six years in (2016)
  25. While looking for something on "the other go programming language" I ran across this book list: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Books Maybe the creator of this repo didn't want it to be yet another book list.
  26. …3. I wish it had mentioned the functional options pattern in the part about constructors[1] 0: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/b77aad089176ecab971d3a72f0... 1: https://dave.cheney.net/2014/10/17/functional-options-for-fr...
    comment by bbatha · 2018-03-02 · in Go best practices, six years in (2016)
  27. ▲ 2
    Go's Heap to No Longer Be Limited to 512GB
    story by kiyanwang · 2018-02-23 · 0 comments
  28. Done. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/24042 Not sure if i did it right, since the default template seems to be for a bug and not a new feature request.
  29. …so I gave up. I should revisit that project one day, heh. 0 - https://github.com/cretz/goahead 1 - https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18602
    comment by kodablah · 2018-02-22 · in Electron 2.0.0 beta
  30. …go test does track files read during tests and records a hash of their contents. Bug: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/22593 Commit: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/81895
    comment by uluyol · 2018-02-17 · in Go 1.10 Release Notes
  31. It was requested by rsc in 2015: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/11193 It was implemented by rsc subsequently, after discussion on the issue: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/75631 I'm not sure what you're trying to insinuate.
    comment by rhencke · 2018-02-17 · in Go 1.10 Release Notes
  32. …problem is finally fixed: https://www.weave.works/blog/linux-namespaces-and-go-don-t-m... GH issue: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20676 The fix itself: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/46033 Relevant part of the release…
    comment by ivan4th · 2018-02-16 · in Go 1.10 Release Notes
  33. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23745
  34. ▲ 1
    Go now accepts PRs on GitHub
    story by nautical · 2018-02-13 · 0 comments
  35. Go does have special handling for Github: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/816154b06553a4cf8ee7ad089f... .
    comment by heinrich5991 · 2018-02-13 · in Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now
  36. …are served from golang.org/x/<whatever>[2] not github.com. [1] https://github.com/golang/dep [2] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SubRepositories
  37. See the comment on the same thread https://github.com/golang/go/issues/18517#issuecomment-27051...
  38. ▲ 277
    Go accepts patches from GitHub pull requests now
    story by vhost- · 2018-02-12 · 47 comments
  39. …guidance, is effectively being used as such in a large volume of Go code in the wild. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools [2] https://golang.org/doc/articles/go_command.html#tmp_1 [3]…
    comment by niftich · 2018-02-09 · in GitHub shouldn't allow username reuse
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    Go now accepts PRs on GitHub
    story by c8g · 2018-02-09 · 0 comments
  41. …more comprehensive, intuitive, and reliable. [0]: https://golang.org/pkg/time/#Time.Format [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15852
    comment by seabrookmx · 2018-02-09 · in Learning Go as a Node.js Developer
  42. …manager. For not needing a dependency manager, Go sure has developed an amazing number of them! https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools https://github.com/avelino/awesome-go/blob/master/README.md#... In fact, Go probably…
    comment by paulddraper · 2018-02-09 · in Learning Go as a Node.js Developer
  43. ▲ 4
    Arbitrary code execution during “go get”
    story by dcu · 2018-02-07 · 0 comments
  44. …1.8, did 1.9 introduce any improvement? There appear to be improvements coming for 1.10 and 1.11: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14939 You don't necessarily have to make a large number of calls into C per frame when using opengl…
    comment by gameswithgo · 2018-02-02 · in Writing space invaders with Go
  45. …rates) but it's also factually incorrect, because by schedule, 2 minor releases happen in a year. 1 https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Go-Release-Cycle
    comment by cratermoon · 2018-01-19 · in Go Is a Great Fit for Lambda
  46. …read. There are instances when you need unlimited capacity, and there is a proposal for it: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/20352 It doesn’t look like it will make it as the maintainers are opposed to it.
    comment by innagadadavida · 2018-01-15 · in Buffered Channels in Go: Tips and Tricks
  47. …widest support in the sense of ACME verification methods, but autocert might get other methods too: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21890
  48. …I have bumped this issue, volunteering to do the work to add http-01 support to package autocert: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/21890
  49. …Which breaks on platforms where syscalls are not considered a stable API, like the BSDs and macOS: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/16606
    comment by int_19h · 2018-01-09 · in Go’s hidden pragmas
  50. …employed by almost every language runtime or standard library (GNU libc also does this, etc.) [1] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/asm_amd... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duff%27s_device