There's an old compiler-building tutorial that has become part of the field's lore: the Let's Build a Compiler series by Jack Crenshaw (published between 1988 and 1995). I ran into it in 2003 and was very impressed, but it's now 2025 and this tutorial is still being mentioned qui...
#582 — December 10, 2025 Read the Web Version 🗓️ A quick note that Go Weekly will be moving to Fridays in January 2026. We still have one more week before the Christmas break, though: we'll be back next Wednesday with our 2025 roundup!__Your editor,...
If cryptocurrencies aren’t managed by any central authority, what’s to stop anyone just printing themselves some money and spending it on pizza? The answer, excitingly, is “math”.
I was in a live stream with Pachi Parra, talking a bit about my background, and about GoReleaser.
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download. The post Go 1.25.5-1 and 1.24.11-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
#581 — December 3, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Getting Started with Go on the Nintendo 64 — EmbeddedGo is a fork of the standard Go compiler that adds support for bare-metal compilation targeting numerous devices, now includ...
Happy thanksgiving - GoReleaser v2.13 is here!
A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure. — Segal’s Law Take this example: func validate(input string) (bool, error) { // Validation check 1 if input == "" { return false, nil } // Validation check 2...
Here’s a silly example extracted from real code. Does this program print true or false?