Reposted by thepuddsGo @golang.org · 24/09/2026“Platform-independent SIMD in Go” by David Chase and Junyang Shao — go.dev/blog/simd-experiment #golang 0358
Reposted by thepuddsRoger Peppe @rog.bsky.social · 22/09/2026I'm taking a short break, but if you have an opportunity you think I'd be into, hit me up! 032
thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 10/09/2026I’m very, very happy to share that I have just joined the core Go team at Google to work on the Go runtime and compiler! I’ve been pitching in as an external contributor since 2018, but now my very enjoyable hobby is becoming my day job 😅 (Also, my name is PJ 👋) 121868
Reposted by thepuddsQuim Muntal @qmuntal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Reducing cgo/syscall overhead on Windows by ~20%, down to ~30ns ⚡ go.dev/cl/824784 #golanggo.devGerrit Code Review 1231
thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Yet another very nice #golang resource from @antonz.org 0101
Reposted by thepuddsAnton Zhiyanov @antonz.org · 25/08/2026The new JSON package is finally production-ready in Go 1.27, so I've updated my JSON v2 guide. It explains all the main differences between the json and json/v2 packages, with interactive examples for each one. Check it out! antonz.org/go-json-v2antonz.orgJSON evolution in Go: from v1 to v2Reviewing the key changes in json/v2. 2427
Reposted by thepuddsDaniel Lemire @lemire.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Go 1.27 will make some allocations cheaper lemire.me/blog/2026/08/15/go-1-27-w… 1204
Reposted by thepuddsAndrew Lilley Brinker @alilleybrinker.com · 28/07/2026Years ago we found a macOS libgit2 bug, where libgit2 was losing a macOS error message, causing the error to just print "(null)". We fixed it, only to find the macOS error was "error". 312622
Reposted by thepuddsEgon Elbre @egonelbre.bsky.social · 31/07/2026Conjured a tool for diffing disassembly of binaries for Go. #golang github.com/loov/ixdiffgithub.comGitHub - loov/ixdiff: Compare assembly of two binaries.Compare assembly of two binaries. Contribute to loov/ixdiff development by creating an account on GitHub. 081
thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 30/07/2026I suspect this will be a worthwhile book. Just ordered. (This is from author of the "Practical TLA+" book, and who is apparently now working at Antithesis.) 231
Reposted by thepuddsRoxy Light @zombiezen.com · 29/07/2026Wrote a little #golang blog post about a trick for reducing repetition in error-handling: www.zombiezen.com/blog/2026/07...zombiezen.comWrapping Errors with DeferUsing defer with named result parameters to DRY up error handling in Go 151
Reposted by thepuddsEvan Martin @neugierig.org · 22/07/2026New blog post: Jujutsu tutorial I wrote the tutorial I wish I had. neugierig.org/software/blo...neugierig.orgTech Notes: Jujutsu tutorialI wrote the tutorial I wish I had. 05414
Reposted by thepuddsKemal Akkoyun @kakkoyun.me · 17/07/2026Great milestone for us! We had been working on this hard! If you using @golang.org and collect observability signals from your services check it out! Our goal is to add as much as integrations as possible so that you can automagically collect all the signals! 062
thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 23/06/2026TypeScript folks being secret gophers still paying dividends 😅 1180
Reposted by thepuddsJake Bailey @jakebailey.dev · 15/06/2026This is a fun one: I just sent go.dev/cl/790740, which elides method wrappers for embedded types at offset zero, common for mixins/inherited data types. Doing this removes 60 _thousand_ method wrappers from tsgo's AST package, dropping the compilation of our main exe from 49s to 28s on my machine. 3656
Reposted by thepuddsDaniel Lemire @lemire.bsky.social · 06/06/2026How much do amd64 microarchitecture levels help in Go? lemire.me/blog/2026/06/06/how-much-… 1125
thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 31/05/2026I have also found exe.dev to be exceedingly pleasant to use (and I’ve reduced my personal GCE spend as a result 😅). Easy out of the box, but also very hackable. The people working on it have been displaying nice taste and judgment. 280
Reposted by thepuddsJosh Baker @tidwall.bsky.social · 28/05/2026Biscuits: A very fast concurrent hashmap with transactions for Go. It's like sync.Map but can work on multiple keys atomically. 🚀 github.com/tidwall/bisc...github.comGitHub - tidwall/biscuits: Fast concurrent hashmap for rapidly changing keysFast concurrent hashmap for rapidly changing keys. Contribute to tidwall/biscuits development by creating an account on GitHub. 1143
Reposted by thepuddsMichael Stapelberg 🐧🐹😺 @zekjur.bsky.social · 24/05/2026New blog post 🥳 How my minimal, memory-safe #golang rsync steers clear of vulnerabilities → michael.stapelberg.ch/posts/2026-0...michael.stapelberg.chHow my minimal, memory-safe Go rsync steers clear of vulnerabilitiesBack in January 2025, multiple different security researchers published a total of 6 security vulnerabilities in rsync, some of which allow arbitrary code execution and file leaks, so naturally I was ... 0173
thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 10/05/2026This new Go B-tree implementation looks both fast and pleasant! (This is from @tidwall.bsky.social, who has done very nice things in the #golang world like tile38, gjson, prior btree, ...) cc @adonovan.bsky.social 👀 0222
Reposted by thepuddsPredrag Gruevski @predr.ag · 09/05/2026I'm working on cargo-semver-checks, and I realized that an edge case of one of my edge cases has an edge case that breaks my planned design. That means that so far, I'm having an average Saturday in cargo-semver-checks land 😅 0181
Reposted by thepuddsJosh Baker @tidwall.bsky.social · 09/05/2026GJSON v1.19 is out. First update in 2 years. Includes the All() and Values() iterator functions. For all you cool kids who like that modern Go stuff. github.com/tidwall/gjson 0123
Reposted by thepuddsRuss Cox @swtch.com · 07/05/2026The LLM bug hunter comes for us all. Here’s a truly terrible mistake I made seven years ago that somehow went unnoticed by multiple human reviews. Patch your systems! And my apologies. groups.google.com/g/golang-ann...groups.google.com[security] Go 1.26.3 and Go 1.25.10 are released 65110
Reposted by thepuddsDaniel Martí @handle.invalid · 04/05/2026overdue for a gofumpt release, so I took the chance to close a bunch of issues too! #golanggithub.comRelease v0.10.0 · mvdan/gofumptThis release is based on Go 1.26's gofmt, and requires Go 1.25 or later. A new rule is introduced to drop unnecessary parentheses around expressions where the inner expression is unambiguous on its... 0172
Reposted by thepuddsFilippo Valsorda @filippo.abyssdomain.expert · 28/04/2026A bit over two years after starting to work on it... Go is officially FIPS 140-3 certified 💥 csrc.nist.gov/projects/cry... I am pretty confident Go is now one of the most—if not the most—seamless and complete FIPS 140-3 compliance solutions... with a single env var, out of the box. 928962
Reposted by thepuddsStefan Judis @stefanjudis.com · 21/04/2026A new Git version just dropped and it comes with a new experimental `history` command! `reword` can be used to change commit messages and `split` can untangle a single commit into multiple ones. No more interactive rebase. 🎉 github.blog/open-source/... 723634
Reposted by thepuddsAlan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 14/04/2026Go’s push iterators can be strange at first but they are so much easier to write when the algorithm to visit the elements has nontrivial control flow (recursion or conditionals) such as for a tree; you just call yield. In Java/C++ one must explicitly materialize all state implied by your SP and PC. 162
Reposted by thepuddsJeremy Morrell @jeremymorrell.dev · 13/04/2026Stacked PRs in GitHub! I never thought I would see the day 😲 github.github.com/gh-stack/github.github.comGitHub Stacked PRsBreak large changes into small, reviewable, stacked pull requests with first-class GitHub support. 2257
Reposted by thepuddsBlain Smith @blainsmith.com · 08/04/2026Building Go APIs with Huma, sqlc, and Goose blainsmith.com/articles/bui... #GoLang #SQL ##OpenAPI #huma #sqlc #goose #codegenblainsmith.comBuilding Go APIs with Huma, sqlc, and Goose - Blain Smith 031
Reposted by thepuddsDamien Neil @misago.org · 08/04/2026Holy cheese my untyped composite literal proposal from 2015 just got accepted. #golang github.com/golang/go/is...github.comproposal: spec: type inferred composite literals · Issue #12854 · golang/goComposite literals construct values for structs, arrays, slices, and maps. They consist of a type followed by a brace-bound list of elements. e.g., x := []string{"a", "b", "c"} I propose adding unt... 4314
Reposted by thepuddsDaniel Lemire @lemire.bsky.social · 29/03/2026A Fast Immutable Map in Go lemire.me/blog/2026/03/29/a-fast-im… 0204
Reposted by thepuddsAnton Zhiyanov @antonz.org · 21/03/2026Could Go be a better C? I think so! Meet Solod — a strict subset of Go that translates to C, without hidden memory allocations and with source-level interop. antonz.org/solodantonz.orgSolod: Go can be a better CA subset of Go that transpiles to regular C, with zero runtime. 0172
Reposted by thepuddsSameer Vasta @sameervasta.bsky.social · 13/03/2026This is the best product review I’ve read: samhenri.gold/blog/2026031... It doesn’t matter if you’re interested in the MacBook Neo or not; this is the kind of essay that makes you think about the potential of technology and the joys of exploration.samhenri.gold“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri GoldSam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software. 341826630
Reposted by thepuddsRoger Peppe @rog.bsky.social · 12/03/2026A great example of how the Google #golang team put thousands of lines of ultra-technical code in service of an incredibly easy-to-use and useful tool. If you ever deprecate code, you really should know about the go:inline directive! 03910
Reposted by thepuddsAlan Donovan @adonovan.bsky.social · 11/03/2026Find out how the source-level inliner in Go 1.26 can help you with API migrations. go.dev/blog/inlinergo.dev//go:fix inline and the source-level inliner - The Go Programming LanguageHow Go 1.26's source-level inliner works, and how it can help you with self-service API migrations. 15513
Reposted by thepuddsJosh Baker @tidwall.bsky.social · 09/03/2026I've spent the past couple months hand crafting a new B-tree map implementation for Go. It's fast. Faster than Rust's BTreeMap. Faster than the fastest C++ (frozenca/btree). And about 2x faster than my current Go btree (tidwall/btree). 61066
Reposted by thepuddsDaniel Martí @handle.invalid · 09/03/2026I've just released a new version of the "sh" #golang module, including initial Zsh support in shfmt, as well as many improvements and fixes to the parser and interpreter 🎉github.comRelease v3.13.0 · mvdan/shThis release introduces support for Zsh in the parser and formatter, which was tracked in issue #120 alongside the label zsh . While support is not complete, it should be far enough for many u... 0195
Reposted by thepuddsDaniel Martí @handle.invalid · 02/03/2026Finally! No more "dirty" #golang builds because you have untracked files laying around which don't affect the build at all :)github.comproposal: cmd/go: only set vcs.modified=true if changes are relevant to build · Issue #77897 · golang/goProposal Details If I run 'go build' in a repo with a random extra file that doesn't matter to the build, the runtime build info in the binary says vcs.modified=true and the main module path has a ... 0163
Reposted by thepuddsGopherCon @gophercon.com · 26/02/2026Got an idea buzzing in that brilliant gopher brain of yours? 🧠 Don’t keep it in the lab; share it with the #golang community! 🧪 #GopherCon Call for Speakers closes March 4th. Submit your proposal ➡️ sessionize.com/gophercon-20... #RoadToGopherCon 022
thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 12/02/2026Small #golang PSA: Most of the very nice automatic code problem reports in your editor or IDE come from Staticcheck by Dominik Honnef (@honnef.co). gopls is the LSP, and it uses many of the rules from Staticcheck. Suggestion: consider sponsoring Dominik! (Well worth it in my humble opinion😅)github.comSponsor @dominikh on GitHub SponsorsI'm Dominik and I have dedicated a large part of my life to open source. In particular, I love writing code that helps other programmers do their job. 2162
Reposted by thepuddsdominikh @honnef.co · 12/02/2026I'm putting the finishing touches on the Staticcheck update for #golang 1.26. You can expect a release by the end of the week. 1294
Reposted by thepuddsJake Bailey @jakebailey.dev · 11/02/2026Some pretty awesome improvements in 1.26 for compiling/testing typescript-go. With a clean build/test cache, running the full test suite used to take 3m45s, but now takes just 2m10s. 2635
Reposted by thepuddsAnton Zhiyanov @antonz.org · 11/02/2026Go 1.26 is out, and the announcement says: "Over the next few weeks, follow-up blog posts will cover some of the topics in more detail. Check back later." So you can wait a few weeks OR you can read my interactive Go 1.26 tour right away: antonz.org/go-1-26antonz.orgGo 1.26 interactive tourNew with expressions, type-safe error checking, and faster everything. 15214
Reposted by thepuddsAnton Zhiyanov @antonz.org · 29/01/2026With Go 1.26, you can easily log to multiple targets (like stdout, a file, or a remote server) using just the standard library. All thanks to slog.MultiHandler, which sends log records to any number of handlers you configure. 0325
Reposted by thepuddsDaniel Martí @handle.invalid · 28/01/2026@rog.bsky.social this sounds perfect for testing servers locally, especially with synctest 😊 github.com/golang/go/is...github.comproposal: testing/nettest: in-memory implementations of net package interfaces · Issue #77362 · golang/goThis is a proposal to add in-memory implementations of net.Listener, net.Conn, and net.PacketConn to the standard library. Motivation The net package defines abstract interfaces describing stream a... 1203
thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 22/01/2026This is a fun writeup of using C to implement #golang interfaces (or maybe Rust traits), complete with editable C you can run via your browser. It pairs nicely with the classic post on the Go interface implementation by @swtch.com from 16 (!) years ago: research.swtch.com/interfaces 140
Reposted by thepuddsRuss Cox @swtch.com · 19/01/2026“Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast” The fastest known floating-point printer and parsing algorithms - fixed-width printing, shortest-width printing, and parsing, all in 400 lines of Go. research.swtch.com/fp research.swtch.com/fp-proofresearch.swtch.comresearch!rsc: Floating-Point Printing and Parsing Can Be Simple And Fast (Floating Point Formatting, Part 3) 17716
thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 17/01/2026Very nice! #golang flight recorder taking off (so to speak) 190
thepudds @thepudds.bsky.social · 16/01/2026A good way to keep up with the Go project is this starter pack from @mvdan.cc (long-time #golang contributor). Two other good ways to keep up are subscribing to the Go proposal review meeting GitHub issue: go.dev/issue/33502 and the Go compiler & runtime meeting notes issue: go.dev/issue/43930 0143
Reposted by thepuddsJay Conrod @jayconrod.com · 15/01/2026New blog post, with a perhaps mildly unpopular opinion: jayconrod.com/posts/133/in...jayconrod.comIntegration tests are best testsItegration tests are the most important kind of tests. You should strive for excellent integration test coverage and invest relatively little time in unit tests. I've believed this since I worked on c... 4317