Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go. - borgo-lang/borgo

Summary Consider enabling the nilness linter by default on go vet (and therefore go test). Details The nilness linter searches for potential nil pointer dereferences in code. It is not enabled by d...

I am experimenting with running a new bot @gabyhelp (which I am writing) in the Go issue tracker to try to help automate various mundane things that a machine can do reasonably well. Some aspects o...

NOTE: This is based on, but completely rewritten, from a Twitter post: https://x.com/TheGingerBill/status/1802645945642799423
TL;DR It makes Go feel too “functional” rather than being an unabashed imperative language.
I recently saw a post on Twitter showing…

This is a proposal for adding a generic OnceFunc function to the sync package in the standard library. In my team's codebase we recently added this function to our private syncutil package: // ...

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Currently, language change proposals created through the corresponding template are given titles starting with "proposal: Go 2:" and assigned LanguageChange and v2 labels. As an outsider ...

Go 1.23 adds iterators, continues loop enhancements, improves compatibility, and more.

A description of range over function types, a new feature in Go 1.23.

Go version go version go1.23rc2 darwin/amd64 Output of go env in your module/workspace: GO111MODULE='auto' GOARCH='amd64' GOBIN='' GOCACHE='/tmp/.gocache' GOENV=&#39...

New package for interning in Go 1.23.

What is a weak pointer? Weak pointers (or weak references, as they are referred to in other languages) allow developers to reference memory without preventing the garbage collector from reclaiming ...

Go 1.23 includes opt-in telemetry for the Go toolchain.

Background Go provides one function for object finalization in the form of runtime.SetFinalizer. Finalizers are notoriously hard to use, and the documentation of runtime.SetFinalizer describes all ...