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Say Hello to Go 1.24: FIPS 140-3 Compliance, Generic Type Aliases, and Performance Boosts!
A supply chain attack in the Go ecosystem where a fake BoltDB package introduced a backdoor, allowing remote system control.
Go 1.24's map has faster insertion and lookup but slower deletion due to the new Swiss Table-based implementation.
Alibaba, Datadog, and Quesma team up on Go Compile-Time Instrumentation
Go might soon get a new way to handle err != nil, making your code cleaner and cutting down on boilerplate.
From Finalisers to Weak Pointers: What's New in Go 1.24's Standard Library?
Go's concurrency, upgrade strategies, and internals of memory management. Plus, tools and tips for Gophers.
A deep dive into the new toolchain features and the full support for generic type aliases coming in Go 1.24.
Go's function parameters, optimisation tricks, and memory management—plus dives into union types and testing hacks!
From Database Connection Patterns to Nintendo Switch Compilation and Secure Cookie Management