I first ran into Forth about 20 years ago when reading a book about designing embedded hardware. The reason I got the book back then was to actually learn more about the HW aspects, so having skimmed the Forth chapter I just registered an "oh, this is neat" mental note...
#567 — August 27, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Container-Aware GOMAXPROCS — The official Go blog kicks off a promised series of posts on Go 1.25’s new features with a look at some tweaked container-aware behavior around GOM...
Go’s garbage collector is designed not only to manage memory safely but also to pace itself intelligently, striking a balance between low latency and high throughput. This blogpost explores how the GC adapts its pace to workload demands, demonstrated through both sequential and...
A discussion of testing asyncronous code and an exploration of the `testing/synctest` package. Based on the GopherCon Europe 2025 talk with the same title.
#566 — August 20, 2025 Read the Web Version ☀️ We're back from a week off – the previous issue is here if you want to check it out again – and we should now be back every week until October at least :-)__Peter Cooper, your editor Go Wee...
New GOMAXPROCS defaults in Go 1.25 improve behavior in containers.
I’ve spent most of my career working in New York City. Every morning, I’d walk past those towering skyscrapers, genuinely amazed at what humans can build together. The engineering, the coordination, the trust required. It’s breathtaking. What fascinates me most...
Starting this post as I'm on the way home from a great few days at GopherCon UK, I had a great time. This year's GopherCon UK was a little different than last year's given this year there were "tutorials" as a third session type. GopherCon UK runs both "workshops&q...
Our brains can only do one thing at once, but Go programs can manage millions of independently-executing concurrent tasks. Let’s find out how that works, and learn why concurrency is central to Go.
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.25.0-1 Microsoft build now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.