I love how proactive the crypto team is about post quantum. They released https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/mldsa. The lead maintainer Filippo Valsorda wrote a nice piece here[1] to urge the tech world to start deploying good enough versions of post quantum crypto.
Better generics and improved SIMD are nice additions as well.
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Xeoncross
> First, generic methods are now supported
> Generic functions can now be used without explicit type arguments
Great! This was an ergonomic code issue I hit when trying to create a universal handler/controller generic that could hydrate/populate function arguments (from a request body) without having an actual copy of the arguments: https://github.com/xeoncross/mid/blob/main/handler.go#L12
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xavdid
I love these release notes but I really wish they would add syntax highlighting to the Go blog. I'm always a little bit surprised/disappointed whenever I land on a go.dev link since I know the code will be just a little harder to visually parse than it needs to be.
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olingern
> Second, a key in a struct literal may now be any valid field selector for the struct type, allowing fields in nested or embedded structs to be initialized directly
It's been a while since I've written more than anything trivial in golang, but this seems like a big deal to me. As in, I can define a struct that is consistent and reusable in other structs
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piinbinary
This makes me want to find a side project for an excuse to give Go another try (I last used it professionally pre-generics).
I do still wish it had discriminated unions (algebraic data types) and some better error handling ergonomics.
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tyho
The SIMD stuff is incredible. I have been having lots of fun with it. You can use LLMs as a scalar to SIMD transpiler, it works amazingly well.
Sure a SIMD expert writing assembly can probably do a better job than an LLM using these new intrinsics, but it’s still massively faster.
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patabyte
I'm so glad the new uuid package landed - it's overdue but a very welcome addition! I've already replaced github.com/google/uuid with `uuid` in several projects
ejboy
Used to code primarily in Java. Now my app stack is about 80% Go. I love that it enables lightweight application development. Glad to see the platform evolving with a focus on resource efficiency.
tschellenbach
Every release CPU load becomes a bit lower. Love it :)
FYI golangci-lint and gopls are both broken if you try using generic methods.
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tschellenbach
New JSON is amazing, and SIMD will be big for json, audio/video etc.
todotask2
Interesting, this reduced memory usage in my test down from 14 MB to 12 MB, and Bun (Rust) is still at 7.2 MB, down from 10 MB with Bun (Zig).
nick_
Nice additions to go.
I like to imagine that one day we'll have a language that launched with all the features languages eventually add. The whole ecosystem of packages would be built on them instead of a legacy of more primitive language feature sets.
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evantbyrne
Generic methods are a huge win for the language. I've been waiting on these kinds of improvements to the type system before resuming work on my database toolkit.
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jeanbza
I have been waiting for generic methods and can't wait to use them!
The `go fix` modernisers are also great, have already run them in several repos.
Hasz
I have recently been spending time learning go, really really liking the language, awesome standard lib, excellent tooling and great experience.
It sounds like the dumbest thing in the world, but I love the import system auto-adding stuff inside of vscode when I need it. just slick.
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tugback
Generic methods finally landing is huge. Having to write a separate typed method for every integer type was one of the most annoying boilerplate patterns in Go.
tonymet
I love Go because even minor versions deliver great value like this. The struct literal inits and generic methods are great conveniences to clean up clumsy boilerplate.
Not to mention it’s just a dream language to work with , especially when building concurrent applications. I love engaging all of my cores. And memory is so expensive nowadays
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kar1181
Go - the language no one likes, but frankly everyone needs.
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dude250711
Quarterly reminder that Go still exists.
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SpaceManNabs
Wait generics? What changed? Why is golang accepting of generics now?
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BeriV2
does it have goroutine termination, i recently found out you need a runtime patch for it
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Fervicus
I really want to like Go, but I can't stand looking at Go code. The error handling is such a turn off.
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pmkary
I'm always amazed on how the Go team has bo faith in syntax highlighting.
pregnenolone
Wasn't Go supposed to be "simple"? I remember how Go advocates used to boast about not having generics and now it almost seems like Go is trying to become some sort of C# or Java Frankenstein. I'm not even trying to badmouth Golang - just legitimately confused.
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freakynit
As I've always said: every non-functional programming language, as it matures, it's adoption rises in enterprise, eventually starts to become more and more like Java in terms of it's syntax and feature-set.
Not mentioned: Floating-point parsing and formatting now uses Russ Cox's uscale algorithm.
https://research.swtch.com/fp
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/go1.27.0/src/internal/strc...
I love how proactive the crypto team is about post quantum. They released https://pkg.go.dev/crypto/mldsa. The lead maintainer Filippo Valsorda wrote a nice piece here[1] to urge the tech world to start deploying good enough versions of post quantum crypto.
[1] https://words.filippo.io/crqc-timeline/
Brace for a wave of drive-by pull-requests swapping google/uuid [1] out for the now-standard uuid package [2].
Kubernetes project will be the first one [3] I guarantee it.
[1] https://pkg.go.dev/github.com/google/uuid
[2] https://go.dev/pkg/uuid
[3] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/2220c3853a2402...
[4] https://github.com/google/uuid/issues/221
Struct literal changes while welcomed, have the issue of being a possible source of bugs, if there are overlapping fields,
type Habitat struct { Burrow string }
type Gopher struct { Name string Burrow string Habitat }
It will not initialise what one expects, here it is a contrived example, however it may not be easy to spot in more complex source code.
https://go.dev/play/p/dsY6tK5S8Ie
Better generics and improved SIMD are nice additions as well.
> First, generic methods are now supported > Generic functions can now be used without explicit type arguments
Great! This was an ergonomic code issue I hit when trying to create a universal handler/controller generic that could hydrate/populate function arguments (from a request body) without having an actual copy of the arguments: https://github.com/xeoncross/mid/blob/main/handler.go#L12
I love these release notes but I really wish they would add syntax highlighting to the Go blog. I'm always a little bit surprised/disappointed whenever I land on a go.dev link since I know the code will be just a little harder to visually parse than it needs to be.
> Second, a key in a struct literal may now be any valid field selector for the struct type, allowing fields in nested or embedded structs to be initialized directly
It's been a while since I've written more than anything trivial in golang, but this seems like a big deal to me. As in, I can define a struct that is consistent and reusable in other structs
This makes me want to find a side project for an excuse to give Go another try (I last used it professionally pre-generics).
I do still wish it had discriminated unions (algebraic data types) and some better error handling ergonomics.
The SIMD stuff is incredible. I have been having lots of fun with it. You can use LLMs as a scalar to SIMD transpiler, it works amazingly well.
Sure a SIMD expert writing assembly can probably do a better job than an LLM using these new intrinsics, but it’s still massively faster.
I'm so glad the new uuid package landed - it's overdue but a very welcome addition! I've already replaced github.com/google/uuid with `uuid` in several projects
Used to code primarily in Java. Now my app stack is about 80% Go. I love that it enables lightweight application development. Glad to see the platform evolving with a focus on resource efficiency.
Every release CPU load becomes a bit lower. Love it :)
Full release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.27
FYI golangci-lint and gopls are both broken if you try using generic methods.
New JSON is amazing, and SIMD will be big for json, audio/video etc.
Interesting, this reduced memory usage in my test down from 14 MB to 12 MB, and Bun (Rust) is still at 7.2 MB, down from 10 MB with Bun (Zig).
Nice additions to go.
I like to imagine that one day we'll have a language that launched with all the features languages eventually add. The whole ecosystem of packages would be built on them instead of a legacy of more primitive language feature sets.
Generic methods are a huge win for the language. I've been waiting on these kinds of improvements to the type system before resuming work on my database toolkit.
I have been waiting for generic methods and can't wait to use them!
The `go fix` modernisers are also great, have already run them in several repos.
I have recently been spending time learning go, really really liking the language, awesome standard lib, excellent tooling and great experience.
It sounds like the dumbest thing in the world, but I love the import system auto-adding stuff inside of vscode when I need it. just slick.
Generic methods finally landing is huge. Having to write a separate typed method for every integer type was one of the most annoying boilerplate patterns in Go.
I love Go because even minor versions deliver great value like this. The struct literal inits and generic methods are great conveniences to clean up clumsy boilerplate.
Not to mention it’s just a dream language to work with , especially when building concurrent applications. I love engaging all of my cores. And memory is so expensive nowadays
Go - the language no one likes, but frankly everyone needs.
Quarterly reminder that Go still exists.
Wait generics? What changed? Why is golang accepting of generics now?
does it have goroutine termination, i recently found out you need a runtime patch for it
I really want to like Go, but I can't stand looking at Go code. The error handling is such a turn off.
I'm always amazed on how the Go team has bo faith in syntax highlighting.
Wasn't Go supposed to be "simple"? I remember how Go advocates used to boast about not having generics and now it almost seems like Go is trying to become some sort of C# or Java Frankenstein. I'm not even trying to badmouth Golang - just legitimately confused.
As I've always said: every non-functional programming language, as it matures, it's adoption rises in enterprise, eventually starts to become more and more like Java in terms of it's syntax and feature-set.