Last week I was invited to join the wonderful Fallthrough podcast as a guest host, on a more time sensitive episode discussing the recent backdoor discovered in the Go module proxy, and the episode has just shipped, with a very good title! This was actually my second episode with...
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.24.0-1 Microsoft build now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
Go 1.24 enhances WebAssembly capabilities with function export and reactor mode
After publishing Go 1.24's go tool is one of the best additions to the ecosystem in years a couple of weeks ago, a few commenters pointed me to the other massive thing that was coming in the Go 1.24 release: the omitzero JSON struct tag, and I was pretty gutted to realise I'd mis...
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. The post Go 1.23.6-2 and 1.22.12-2 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
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Go 1.24 brings generic type aliases, map performance improvements, FIPS 140 compliance and more.
Although first introduced in 2014, the Context package remains a crucial component of Go programming, enabling efficient management of request-scoped data, deadlines, and cancellation signals. As the Go ecosystem continues to evolve, understanding the Context package’s sema...
Happy February! Another release is here with several improvements across the board.
I’ve always found the signature of io.Reader a bit odd: type Reader interface { Read(p []byte) (n int, err error) } Why take a byte slice and write data into it? Wouldn’t it be simpler to create the slice inside Read, load the data, and return it instead? // Hypot...