Across these repos, the savings average around 75%, but memory reductions are non-linear: as projects get larger, so does the relative decrease in memory usage. We’ll explain this in more detail below. Gopls and the evolving Go ecosystem Gopls provides language-agnostic editors with IDE-like features such as auto-completion, formatting, cross-references, and refactoring. Since its beginnings in 20

Ian Lance Taylor and Robert Griesemer 16 June 2020 Introduction It’s been almost a year since we last wrote about the possibility of adding generics to Go. It’s time for an update. Updated design We’ve been continuing to refine the generics design draft. We’ve written a type checker for it: a program that can parse Go code that uses generics as described in the design draft and report any type err

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Francesc Campoy 24 August 2017 Today the Go team is happy to announce the release of Go 1.9. You can get it from the download page. There are many changes to the language, standard library, runtime, and tooling. This post covers the most significant visible ones. Most of the engineering effort put into this release went to improvements of the runtime and tooling, which makes for a less exciting an

Chris Broadfoot 16 February 2017 Today the Go team is happy to announce the release of Go 1.8. You can get it from the download page. There are significant performance improvements and changes across the standard library. The compiler back end introduced in Go 1.7 for 64-bit x86 is now used on all architectures, and those architectures should see significant performance improvements. For instance,