#597 — April 17, 2026
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Let’s Add a Conditional Expression to Go — Not a proposal for a real Go feature, but an epic tour through the Go compiler, including the parser, type checker, IR, and the walk d...
In which I have some fun with Claude Opus 4.6, a seemingly indecisive AI coding agent.
Translating errors at layer boundaries so storage details don't leak into the handler or, worse, into client responses.
I'm happy to announce the general availability of watgo
- the WebAssembly Toolkit for Go. This project is similar to
wabt (C++) or
wasm-tools (Rust), but in
pure, zero-dependency Go.
watgo comes with a CLI and a Go API to parse WAT (WebAssembly Text), validate
it …
#596 — April 10, 2026
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🐣 You didn't miss an issue last week. We're back after a little Easter break. 😊__Peter Cooper, your editor
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Solod: A Subset of Go That Translates to C — Can Go be a ‘bette...
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
The post Go 1.26.2-1 and 1.25.9-1 Microsoft builds now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.
In the previous articles we explored the scheduler
— how goroutines get multiplexed onto OS threads through the GMP model — and the garbage collector
— how Go tracks and reclaims memory using a concurrent, tri-color mark-and-sweep approach. Both of these systems are impre...
Dependencies are a huge supply chain security risk; the more of them you have, and the more often you update, the bigger the attack surface.
She’s an internationally famous high-performance computing architect. He’s
a rumpled, handsome, yet socially awkward basement coder. They fall in
love—blazing fast.
"Intellectuals and Society" by Thomas Sowell - a collection of essays in which
Sowell criticizes "intellectuals", by which he mostly means left-leaning
thinkers and opinions. Interesting, though certainly very biased. This book
is from 2009 and focuses mostly...