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A wild new proposal could let you write low-level code—like boot managers or firmware—directly in Go. No OS needed. Seriously.
How long does it take to read and process 1 BILLION lines?
Cursor is the hottest topic in the SWE community right now—it's a tool that can help you develop 10X faster.
Inside Go 1.24’s New Map Implementation: SIMD, XOR, and the Swiss Map Approach
Go 1.24’s synctest makes testing goroutines easy. No more sleep hacks—just reliable concurrency tests
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.
