🔬 Go Experiments Explained — Go ships ‘experimental’ features so you can trial new functionality or behavior changes before they're locked in, but do you know how to find and enable them, or how they graduate to GA? Alex walks through how the system works.
Alex Edwards
How Go Builds Stack Traces — In the final part of his fantastic Understanding the Go Runtime series, Jesús walks us through what happens from panic() through to what Go prints at your terminal to help you debug failures.
Jesús Espino
IN BRIEF:
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⭐ Go 1.26.4 and 1.25.11 have been released including three security fixes covering
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A reminder that 🇺🇸 GopherCon and 🇬🇧 GopherCon UK are taking place this August. Tickets are available for both.
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📘 Jon Bodner, the author of O'Reilly's Learning Go, has announced the 3rd edition is now in 'Early Release'. The full book is expected in 2027.
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Adam Bouqdib proposes a
Movefunction for relocating an existing element within a slice.
📄 Why Does tsgo Use So Much Memory? – A pprof-driven investigation into why the new Go-based TypeScript compiler uses so much memory. Zack Radisic
📄 Self-Calling Executables – How to make a Go program re-launch itself as a subprocess. Olivier Pfad
📄 IPv6 Zones in URLs Are a Mistake – How certain URLs including IPv6 zones can give url.Parse indigestion. Xe Iaso
📄 Socket Options That Matter – e.g. TCP_NODELAY, SO_REUSEPORT, SO_RCVBUF, SO_SNDBUF, and SOMAXCONN Alexander Stavonin
Heimdall 7.2: An Enhanced HTTP Client for Go — Designed for making large numbers of requests, including a built-in circuit breaker to control failing requests, multiple and custom retry strategies, plus a fluent API.
Gojek
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betteralign 0.12.0 – Detect and fix struct field alignment to reduce memory usage. Performance has improved, the docs now better explain why you'd use betteralign, and the benchmarks have been updated.
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Hugo 0.162.0 – The popular static site generator adds native AVIF image support. There's a demo if you have an HDR-compatible screen.
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mo 1.17.0 – Monads and other FP abstractions powered by generics.
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GoBGP 4.6 – Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) implementation.
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sdns 1.7 – Recursive DNS resolver server with DNSSEC support.