The Go blog has published Better HTTP/1 connection reuse, a short post explaining a Go 1.27 change that looks small but can make many programs noticeably faster without touching a line. It starts with this function: func …
When we think about software supply-chain attacks, we almost always picture the same thing: someone steals the account of a popular package’s maintainer and publishes a version with malicious code. Trail of Bits …
I’ve been working with coding agents every day for months, and there’s a feeling I find hard to explain: I write far more code than before, but I’m not sure the team ships that many more things to …
Git 3.0 will bring several breaking changes, and one of them will affect almost everyone even though it gets little attention: new repositories will use SHA-256 instead of SHA-1 to identify commits, trees and files. …
One of Go’s most practical ideas is that an import path is both the package name and the place to download it from. You write import "github.com/user/library" and the go command knows it has to go to …
In 2015 I wrote an article about what I liked about Go, and one of the things I found hardest to explain back then was concurrency. Goroutines looked like threads, but they weren’t. They ran …
If you’ve been writing Go for a few years, your code has layers. There’s an interface{} from before any existed, a for i := 0; i < n; i++ from before range over integers, some x := x inside a loop to dodge …
I’ve been writing about Go on this blog since 2015. Back in that “What I like about Go” article I talked about simplicity, fast compilation, and how good it feels to use a language that doesn’t …
A few days ago I watched a video that has given me a lot to think about. Jeffrey Way, founder of Laracasts and one of the most influential people in the Laravel/PHP community, shared a brutally honest reflection on how …
A few days ago I came across an article that literally left me with my mouth open. It’s about TinyEMU-Go: a RISC-V emulator written entirely in Go, ported from C using Claude. And the best part: you can run a …
When developing games for mobile devices, we have multiple cross-platform alternatives:
