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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. Here's an example: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go/-/def/GoPackage...
    comment by malchow · 2016-06-07 · in Toward a URL for every function
  2. …[0]. package main func main() { println("Hello, world") } That compiles to 1.1M using go 1.5. 0. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853
    comment by neopallium · 2016-06-02 · in Why is a Rust executable large?
  3. …appear to be Brian Kernighan playing with the syntax and styling for a C "hello world" program: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?page=810 No one would say those commits show he was working on Go as a "personal project" during…
    comment by laughinghan · 2016-05-16 · in One year of Rust
  4. …as misleading as saying that Go is 40 years old just because its commit graph goes back that far ( https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors ).
    comment by kibwen · 2016-05-16 · in One year of Rust
  5. …in rewriting existing UNIX utils in a safer modern language. Go is also a force on the server: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/GoUsers - that's moved a long way from just that little language from Google. From what I've read from Hacker…
  6. …https://github.com/nodejs/node/blob/master/lib/_http_server.... https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/server... The benchmark is almost equivalent to testing raw eventloop performance against a complete htt
    comment by halayli · 2016-05-04 · in Uvloop: Fast Python networking
  7. …doFollowingRedirects when I want to see where the initial (and likely only) request is made. [0]: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/client...
  8. The change referred to is Robert Griesemer's change to use a new binary export format [0] [0] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7538b1db8ec0d82a623847fe...
  9. …discussed on HN [2]. However, I can't find the corresponding commit in the Juju repo. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/af6aa0fd745d48c2db70712e... [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11593663
  10. …all sorts of functionality (HTTP, crypto, libc-esque functionality) in a fairly minimal way: https://github.com/golang/go
  11. …( https://github.com/isaacs/github/issues/627 ) 2. proposal: generic programming facilities ( https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292 ) 3. Proper tabs for open files ( https://github.com/Microsoft/vscode/issues/224 ) Can't say I'm…
    comment by shoyer · 2016-04-27 · in GitHub has 11,995,200 open issues
  12. ▲ 1
    Proposal: generic programming facilities at golang/go
    story by scapbi · 2016-04-16 · 0 comments
  13. …about a company that can't upgrade past Go 1.4 because newer versions have way worse GC throughput: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14161 Their recommended solution is, "give the Go app a lot more memory". Well, now they're back in the…
    comment by sievebrain · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  14. …the size) of actual live data. That's a big hit right there. And yes, you have to tune the Go GC: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14161 Even when Java gets value types, it won't magically slash memory usage in half. Pointer overheads…
    comment by sievebrain · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  15. …In other words, the issue is not pause time, it's also throughput. And Go users do tune their GC: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14161
    comment by sievebrain · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  16. > Unfortunately, it seems they don't keep older specs around(!) https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master/doc/go_spec.html
    comment by enneff · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  17. …- I opened an issue for considering something like this for go https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15295 hopefully I didn't err in posting it :)
    comment by inglor · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  18. …the default response was "we're thinking about it." Now, it's "let's all talk about it." [1] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/15292
    comment by andrewstuart2 · 2016-04-14 · in Proposal: Go should have generics
  19. …context would probably be added to the standard library and integrated with net/http.Request: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14660 How is this issue solved in Erlang/Elixir? > Coercing Go structs into JSON and vice versus was just…
    comment by ngrilly · 2016-04-10 · in Why Go gets criticized so much
  20. …{ for { } } It stalls after about three seconds on go version 1.6. Here's the issue on github: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/543
    comment by it · 2016-04-09 · in Why Erlang Matters
  21. 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,…
  22. …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
  23. …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
  24. …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
  25. …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
  26. …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
  27. What makes you think so? Go has pretty solid native drivers for most SQL databases out there: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SQLDrivers
  28. …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
  29. …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...
  30. …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 ).
  31. …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
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    Go Proposal: add context to the standard library
    story by Artemis2 · 2016-03-06 · 0 comments
  33. 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
  34. …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
  35. …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
  36. …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
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    Golang dev.ssa branch merged into tip
    story by signa11 · 2016-03-02 · 36 comments
  38. …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
  39. …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
  40. 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
  41. 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
  42. …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…
  43. this case added to https://github.com/golang/go/issues/14325
    comment by pella · 2016-02-14 · in Go vs. Swift vs. C++ microbenchmark
  44. …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
  45. I've seen goto used in golang stdlib for error handling https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/strconv/atoi.go...
  46. …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
  47. 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
  48. …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
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    Go 1.6 Beta 2 is released
    story by pythonist · 2016-01-14 · 0 comments
  50. Same on https://github.com/golang/go
    comment by moondowner · 2016-01-11 · in IBM ported Go to s390x mainframes