Pulling a New Proof from Knuth’s Fixed-Point Printer

A birthday proof for Don Knuth (Floating Point Formatting, Part 2)

Floating Point Formatting

Topic Index

The most popular Go dependency is...

#​584 — January 9, 2026 Read the Web Version 👋 A quick reminder before we get into the first issue of the year — Go Weekly is now sent every Friday (starting today!) as part of a reshuffle for many of our newsletters. __Your editor, Peter Cooper...

Everything You Wanted to Ask About Rust – Answered by Herbert Wolverson

In a recent livestream with JetBrains, Vitaly Bragilevsky sat down with Herbert Wolverson, our Lead Rust Consultant and Instructor here at Ardan Labs, to talk about everything Rust developers – beginners and pros alike – are curious about. Watch the full livestream replay on...

The best Rust books for 2026, reviewed

There are many Rust books, but these are my favourites—and I think you’ll like them too. Here are my reviews of what I think are the truly essential Rust books available today.

Ultimate Go Software Design LIVE: Ep.63

A live coding stream with Bill Kennedy, Kevin Enriquez, Andrey Nering, and me.

Racing with disaster: data races in Go

Writing concurrent programs is easy, but understanding why they don’t work is hard. In this post, we’ll talk about data races, why they’re a problem, and how they arise in Go programs.

Some notes to myself on Super-based bindings in GNU Emacs

What are the best Go books in 2026?

What are the best Go books this year? Read my (relatively) unbiased recommendations for the Go books you should absolutely buy and read right now, whether you’re a beginner or expert Gopher.

Rust vs Go in 2026

Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?