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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. And go:linkname, go:nointerface, and go:nowritebarrier You can see the lexer for these here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/88c08b06b97296e41fc3069f4a...
    comment by scottpiper · 2015-05-14 · in Go Lang: Comments Are Not Directives
  2. …etc. For a set of alternative package managers that are perhaps more in the "spirit of go get", see https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
    comment by lstamour · 2015-05-10 · in Rtop – agentless sever monitoring tool built with Go
  3. We have decided. Don't store pointers to Go objects. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8310
    comment by enneff · 2015-05-10 · in FFI from Go to Rust
  4. …developer about the current and future state of C/Go memory interaction would help clarify this. 1: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8310 2: comment #31 of https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8310
    comment by 1_player · 2015-05-07 · in Go crypto: bridging the performance gap
  5. add it to the list https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/PackageManagementTools
    comment by Queue29 · 2015-05-01 · in Gigo: Pip for Go
  6. …http://erickt.github.io/blog/2014/11/11/benchmarks/ * https://github.com/ugorji/go-codec-bench * https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5683 In my own testing it was faster (even with ffjson) to pre-clean my data in cpython or pypy, and then…
    comment by stock_toaster · 2015-04-23 · in Four days of Go
  7. …code. To enforce this in the linter they literally define a list of initialisms[1]. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/CodeReviewComments#initial... [2]: https://github.com/golang/lint/blob/master/lint.go#L695
    comment by rickhanlonii · 2015-04-22 · in Four days of Go
  8. Seems more appropriate to call these Table Driven Tests: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/TableDrivenTests As they are not truth tables: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Truth_table
    comment by dward · 2015-04-14 · in Elegant tests with Truth Tables
  9. …in the compiler. I would warn you about this link : once it is seen, it cannot be unseen : https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/cmd/internal/gc... The irritating part is that this sums up Go mailinglist behaviour quite well. Coding…
    comment by waps · 2015-03-26 · in “Go’s design is a disservice to intelligent programmers”
  10. Hey, sourcegraph looks really neat! Another commenter provided the following example: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go@ac452349e4f40c3... I love the fact that I can hover over anything (primtive, function etc) which surfaces a…
    comment by fizwhiz · 2015-03-22 · in Ask HN: RapGenius for code?
  11. Think the chaps at Sourcegraph are already on it. Here's an example: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go@ac452349e4f40c3...
    comment by tonyhb · 2015-03-21 · in Ask HN: RapGenius for code?
  12. …plausible that they pull in a lot of third-party code to make things easy on themselves. See, e.g., https://github.com/golang/go/issues/1605
    comment by nrr · 2015-03-10 · in Google has several million lines of Go
  13. …of time working with Docker) and I guess I might be missing something. Taking a random method here: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/strings/reader.... Some questions that come to me when looking at that code: - In general, why…
    comment by djb_hackernews · 2015-03-06 · in Ask HN: What code do you frequently read?
  14. Golang stdlib is an excellent reference for how to write idiomatic Go code https://github.com/golang/go/tree/master/src
    comment by shawnps · 2015-03-06 · in Ask HN: What code do you frequently read?
  15. He authored the first 4 commits in the Go repository ;) https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfae... https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0bb0b61d6a85b2a1a33dcbc4... https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0744ac969119db8a0ad3…
    comment by mseepgood · 2015-03-05 · in The Go Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan, Alan Donovan
  16. …[2] https://docs.google.com/document/d/1TTj4T2JO42uD5ID9e89oa0sL... [3] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/8739
    comment by eloff · 2015-03-03 · in Interview with Salvatore Sanfilippo
  17. Try this: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b986f3e3b54499e63903405c... To be fair, it's extraordinarily slow even in Chrome, but IE11 rendering on this page is pretty bad.
    comment by joshschreuder · 2015-02-26 · in The birth of Microsoft's new web rendering engine
  18. In case is gets fixed, here's what I see, to help diagnose the bug [1]. Both posts point to https://github.com/golang/go/commit/b986f3e3b54499e63903405c... , have the same HN item id=9097404, but different comments counts. [1]…
    comment by WestCoastJustin · 2015-02-23 · in “This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”
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    “This change deletes the C implementations of the Go compiler and assembler”
    story by osw · 2015-02-23 · 126 comments
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    story by chuhnk · 2015-02-23 · 0 comments
  21. …recognise that Go binaries can and should be smaller, but probably not as small as you might hope. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/6853
    comment by enneff · 2015-02-14 · in The State of Go
  22. …In terms of volume of contributions, for Go, Google employees are by far the most active: https://github.com/golang/go/pulse . In this graph, the 7 top contributors to the project are Google employees. The Rust pulse graph shows the same…
    comment by Artemis2 · 2015-02-13 · in Rust 1.0: Status report and final timeline
  23. …of course technically correct. It seems the precision returned by Now may be platform-dependent. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/time/time.go#L7...
    comment by omni · 2015-02-07 · in Go concurrency isn't parallelism: Real world lessons with Monte Carlo sims
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    story by cyber1 · 2015-02-06 · 55 comments
  25. The commit message contains some numbers: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/6c7cbf086c34ebb88311ba12...
    comment by cremno · 2015-02-03 · in Golang Duff's devices
  26. …django, rubys rails, and phps laravel. Disclaimer: non elitist node dev, closely watching go [1] https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Projects
    comment by lugg · 2015-01-29 · in From Node.js to Go
  27. …is by far the easiest to learn and memorize once you get it. The argument from the issue https://github.com/golang/go/issues/444 > It would be much easier to port preexisting code if you could just copy your time formats over. It's not…
    comment by vruiz · 2015-01-25 · in Go Date Format
  28. …https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/aws/aws-sdk-java@master/.... And the Go stdlib: https://sourcegraph.com/github.com/golang/go@master/.GoPacka... And it's all based on srclib, an open-source, multi-language source code analysis framework:…
    comment by sqs · 2015-01-23 · in Show HN: Convert C#/VB into Hyperlinked, Static HTML – Powered by Roslyn
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    C to Go translation diff from the go project
    story by walle_ · 2015-01-20 · 0 comments
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    Resources for learning about concurrency in Go
    story by cnbuff410 · 2015-01-13 · 0 comments
  31. Yes, Ken wrote the compilers: https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master/src/cmd/gc?autho... Use your local git(1) for better history browser.
    comment by 4ad · 2015-01-09 · in Go 1.5 Bootstrap Plan
  32. …Permalink to the relevant section of the Go source, with descriptive comments: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/04cf881fbea55d5bca584c78b1...
    comment by dbaupp · 2014-12-24 · in Computer Language Benchmarks Game – Rust vs. Go
  33. …doesn't always apply to all threads (on Linux at least) so extra care does have to be taken. [0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/1435
    comment by mjquinn · 2014-12-23 · in Docker Image Insecurity
  34. …job! It's bad, trust me. The ping function is just a retouched version of Go's icmp test: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/ipraw_test.... and that's the _good_ part.
    comment by vruiz · 2014-12-19 · in Show HN: Simple monitoring service
  35. They're using one issue tracker for everything: https://github.com/golang/go/issues Issues for sub-repositories like this go there also.
    comment by fhs · 2014-12-11 · in Go 1.4 is released
  36. Here's a search of the go source for use of that: https://github.com/golang/go/search?p=3&q=%22for+range%22&ty... Most of them are tests, but I see a couple genuine use cases: 1. Draining a channel until it closes. 2. Since range of a…
    comment by Laremere · 2014-12-11 · in Go 1.4 is released
  37. …like it's been pushed to the canonical git repo or Github just yet: https://go.googlesource.com/go https://github.com/golang/go/releases Aside from that, this is yet another great release! :)
    comment by bgentry · 2014-12-11 · in Go 1.4 is released
  38. …we could look at for inspiration. [1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md [2] https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/LICENSE [3] https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/blob/master...
    comment by kibwen · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  39. I've made several CLs like this commit [1], yet I am not seeing myself listed under contributors. [1] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/912ec1990bd09f8fc128c3fa...
    comment by shurcooL · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  40. …For instance "spaolacci" is #86 with 8 commits, he's only ever been an author not a committer: https://github.com/golang/go/commits?author=spaolacci
    comment by masklinn · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  41. You can select a timeframe like this: https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors?from=2008-0...
    comment by W0lf · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  42. Unfortunately, this joke makes GitHub Graphs page much less useful, because graphs start from 1972. https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors Is there a way to get this fixed?
    comment by sanxiyn · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  43. I find it interesting that Rust has a lot more contributors compared to Go. Comparing https://github.com/golang/go and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust , all contributors: 380 vs 695, contributors with more than 100 commits: 17 vs 35.
    comment by sanxiyn · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  44. https://github.com/golang/go/commit/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfae... https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0bb0b61d6a85b2a1a33dcbc4... https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0744ac969119db8a0ad32539... https://github.com/golang/go/commit/d82b11e4a463…
    comment by bbrazil · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  45. …to get their contributions attributed to their GitHub account? Mine are not showing up here: https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors
    comment by shawnps · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
  46. …code-review process and gerrit. The updated contribution steps are not yet available though." https://github.com/golang/go/pull/9219
    comment by colinramsay · 2014-12-08 · in Golang on GitHub
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    story by brendanashworth · 2014-12-08 · 106 comments