The World of Go
News, thoughts, and insights about Go, the no-magic, no-distraction, get-sh*t-done language for the cloud.
Go 1.19 delivers small but very interesting updates to the language, the standard library, and the toolchain. Here are some of the ...
New language features, especially significant ones like generics, inevitably come with some caveats. Here are two.
The Go 1.18 update is massive. Generics, Fuzzing, and Workspaces are perhaps the most prominent new features. What else changes with the ...
Go 1.18 introduces a new method for mutexes: TryLock(). The doc warns that correct use cases are rare. Is deadlock prevention a correct use ...
Interfaces cannot declare functions that use the interface type itself in their signature. Until now. Thanks to generics.
Closure semantics can play tricks on us when the closure is a goroutine. Can you spot the error right away?