Matt Pearring and Dmitri Shuralyov 16 February 2021 Today the Go team is very happy to announce the release of Go 1.16. You can get it from the download page. The new embed package provides access to files embedded at compile time using the new //go:embed directive. Now it is easy to bundle supporting data files into your Go programs, making developing with Go even smoother. You can get started us
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