Robert Griesemer, for the Go team 26 June 2019 Status We’re well on the way towards the release of Go 1.13, hopefully in early August of this year. This is the first release that will include concrete changes to the language (rather than just minor adjustments to the spec), after a longer moratorium on any such changes. To arrive at these language changes, we started out with a small set of viable

Robert Griesemer 29 November 2018 Background At GopherCon 2017, Russ Cox officially started the thought process on the next big version of Go with his talk The Future of Go (blog post). We have called this future language informally Go 2, even though we understand now that it will arrive in incremental steps rather than with a big bang and a single major release. Still, Go 2 is a useful moniker, i

Andrew Bonventre 24 August 2018 Who says releasing on Friday is a bad idea? Today the Go team is happy to announce the release of Go 1.11. You can get it from the download page. There are many changes and improvements to the toolchain, runtime, and libraries, but two features stand out as being especially exciting: modules and WebAssembly support. This release adds preliminary support for a new co

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