Backward Compatibility, Go 1.21, and Go 2
Go 1.21 expands Go's commitment to backward compatibility, so that every new Go toolchain is the best possible implementation of older toolchain semantics as well.
Some problems with 'first name' and 'last name' fields in data
Analysing GitHub Pull Request review times with SQLite and Go
In Improving Team Efficiency By Measuring and Improving Code Review Cycle Time, I mentioned that one thing we can do to understand if code review is causing delays is to measure it. Since then, I've also worked on building this at Deliveroo with one of my colleagues, just before...
A program's (effective) log messages can have many sources
Go structured logging with slog
Before the release of version 1.21, you couldn’t set levels for your log messages in Go without either using third-party libraries or writing your own boilerplates. Coming from Python, I’ve always found this odd, considering that this capability has been in the Python...
What I worked on for Go 1.21
Go 1.21 has been released! For past releases, I wrote up my notes on what’s new in Go 1.18 (part 1, part 2), 1.19, and 1.20 (part 1, part 2, part 3), but I thought I would sit this round of blogging out, in part because there have been some good roundups of what’s new elsewhe...
Go structured logging with slog
Before the release of version 1.21, you couldn’t set levels for your log messages in Go without either using third-party libraries or writing your own boilerplates. Coming from Python, I’ve always found this odd, considering that this capability has been in the Python...
Programs shouldn't commit to fixed and predictable log messages
Announcing GoReleaser v1.20 — a quality-of-life release
A little over 100 commits in small-ish quality-of-life improvements.
Go 1.21 is released!
Go 1.21 brings language improvements, new standard library packages, PGO GA, backward and forward compatibility in the toolchain and faster builds.