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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 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.
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
[3] https://github.com/kubernetes/kubernetes/blob/2220c3853a2402...
> 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
FYI golangci-lint and gopls are both broken if you try using generic methods.
I really want to like Go, but I can't stand looking at Go code. The error handling is such a turn off.
Every release CPU load becomes a bit lower. Love it :)
Full release notes: https://go.dev/doc/go1.27
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.
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.
New JSON is amazing, and SIMD will be big for json, audio/video etc.
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.
does it have goroutine termination, i recently found out you need a runtime patch for it
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
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.
Go - the language no one likes, but frankly everyone needs.
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Wait generics? What changed? Why is golang accepting of generics now?
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.
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...