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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. …still prefer C++ and I rarely see Rust job. [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10822019 [2] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Courses Edit: I may be biased since I enjoy programming in Go.
    comment by namelezz · 2016-01-08 · in Why I love Rust
  2. …about http client support for Expect: 100-continue, and it looks like a fix was merged in October: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/dab143c8820151538fea908e... Or are there still problems that aren't mentioned in that issue?
    comment by infogulch · 2015-12-18 · in Go 1.6 Beta Released
  3. They moved it to 1.7 because it didn't get completed in time. You can see the source code here: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/dev.ssa (In particular, https://github.com/golang/go/compare/dev.ssa is interesting). It's not clear to me…
    comment by iends · 2015-12-18 · in Go 1.6 Beta Released
  4. Ah good, I've been waiting on a fix for one nasty bug in particular: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3665 I'm also interested in the vendoring support. I've been using godep and I haven't really taken a look at the vendoring in 1.5 yet…
    comment by jcadam · 2015-12-18 · in Go 1.6 Beta Released
  5. …a "releases" feed, though it only links to the tagged commit (it's essentially a feed dump of https://github.com/golang/go/releases ) you at least get a notification of new releases: https://github.com/golang/go/releases.atom
    comment by masklinn · 2015-12-18 · in Go 1.6 Beta Released
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    Go 1.5, 1.5.1 huge page fragmentation on Linux leads to OOM – fixed in 1.5.2
    story by ceocoder · 2015-12-13 · 0 comments
  7. …doing so it leaves it up to the client to determine when it is safe to automatically redirect." 1. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/client... 2. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9348#issuecomment-867903...
    comment by bkeroack · 2015-12-08 · in Choosing an HTTP Status Code
  8. Well, they believed it was worth adding something (from a commit today): https://github.com/golang/go/commit/50c5042047be3af36e7bb478...
    comment by binarycrusader · 2015-12-07 · in Are Go maps sensitive to data races?
  9. ▲ 1
    Go mobile
    story by aarkay · 2015-11-26 · 0 comments
  10. …the heap and marking anyway and end up doing nothing. I know they've made optimizations like here https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9477 but I haven't followed it up and gave it another look yet.
    comment by pxue · 2015-11-23 · in Fast HTTP package for Go
  11. You can use Go with gomobile https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Mobile#sdk-applications-an... . It works okay but the lack of support for exporting slices really limits things.
    comment by rhodysurf · 2015-11-23 · in Perfect – Server-Side Swift
  12. Also, it's not C it's B. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7...
    comment by billrobertson42 · 2015-11-22 · in Show HN: First Commit – find the first commit of any GitHub project
  13. …2008!). All the old commits do is author a c "hello world" program. Any idea why those are there? https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?page=727 EDIT: I just noticed that they're labeled as being by Brian Kernighan. What? EDIT2: Oh,…
    comment by 542458 · 2015-11-22 · in Show HN: First Commit – find the first commit of any GitHub project
  14. …the randomization happens only at the beginning of a range call: range init's the hashmap iterator: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/6327e8dc69c47d6355e2623cc4... hashmap iterator init sets a random starts:…
    comment by AYBABTME · 2015-11-22 · in Spectro: Adventures in Go
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    Go Code Review Comments
    story by olalonde · 2015-11-17 · 0 comments
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    Golang on ARM
    story by selvan · 2015-11-16 · 63 comments
  17. It's still in its early days though from Google: https://github.com/golang/mobile https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Mobile
    comment by frik · 2015-11-15 · in What will be the legacy of Go?
  18. Seems like FUD. 549 contributors according to GitHub. Open Source. Fork it. https://github.com/golang/go
    comment by nnutter · 2015-11-15 · in What will be the legacy of Go?
  19. How? Its an open source project: https://github.com/golang/go
    comment by bsg75 · 2015-11-10 · in Six years of Go
  20. I am afraid there isn't. In fact, it's called a "slice trick" and listed in Go wiki: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks
    comment by tucnak · 2015-10-28 · in Why Go is a poorly designed language (from a perspective of Go lover)
  21. …that Panic was just used to print a message and close a program with a non-zero status. 1. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PanicAndRecover
    comment by anonfunction · 2015-10-15 · in Show HN: Golang statistics package with 100% code coverage
  22. …2. http://dave.cheney.net/2012/01/18/why-go-gets-exceptions-rig... 3. https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Errors
    comment by anonfunction · 2015-10-15 · in Show HN: Golang statistics package with 100% code coverage
  23. …manual packing you defined today may or may not hold across platforms or future go revisions. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10014
    comment by masklinn · 2015-10-09 · in Padding is hard
  24. …the wire. Unless you're using cgo maybe , I don't know if (or that) cgo provides any guarantee. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/10014
    comment by masklinn · 2015-10-09 · in Padding is hard
  25. ▲ 1
    Playground: why is share blocked from Hong Kong
    story by spacehunt · 2015-09-25 · 0 comments
  26. …test cases or the runtime integration[0]) and the shootout C sources (for bench tests?). [0] https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src/runtime/cgo
    comment by masklinn · 2015-09-13 · in Warming up to Go
  27. That seems to be an issue with the playground: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/12388 It seems counter-intuitive to me that the behavior of time.Parse would depend on a "system location", but apparently it's by design.
    comment by teraflop · 2015-09-10 · in Time in Go
  28. …reported to Apple years ago. Fortunately, it seems that it might finally be fixed in El Capitan: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6047#issuecomment-135591...
    comment by cespare · 2015-08-28 · in Profiling and Optimizing in Go
  29. …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
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    Unexpected string to byte casting behavior in Go 1.5
    story by spenczar5 · 2015-08-20 · 14 comments
  31. …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
  32. ▲ 1
    Go profiling broken in OS X
    story by dantaylor08 · 2015-08-11 · 0 comments
  33. ▲ 91
    “I have already used the name for my programming language” (2009)
    story by scapbi · 2015-08-06 · 74 comments
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    Go 1.5-rc1
    story by aacanakin · 2015-08-06 · 0 comments
  35. …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
  36. …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
  37. 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
  38. …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
  39. …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
  40. ▲ 3
    Proposal: golang.org/x/exp/shiny: an experimental GUI library
    story by diakritikal · 2015-07-22 · 0 comments
  41. …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?
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    Rob Pike: Submit to the punched card tyranny
    story by jcox92 · 2015-07-10 · 10 comments
  43. …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
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    Go 1.5 Beta1
    story by pythonist · 2015-07-08 · 1 comment
  45. …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
  46. …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
  47. …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
  48. 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
  49. …-- 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
  50. 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