The *other* features in Go 1.18

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

On this episode, Michael Matloob and Daniel Martí pinky promise not to talk about Go 1.18’s two big features (fuzzing and generics). Instead, we’re focusing in on the other cool stuff that’s new!

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Featuring:

• Michael Matloob – GitHub, X
• Daniel Martí – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Mat Ryer – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X

Show Notes:

• Daniel’s gofumpt library
• proposal: runtime: GC pacer redesign (#44167)
• bytes, strings: add Cut (#46336)
• net/netip: add new IP address package, use in net (#46518)
• cmd/gofmt: format files in parallel, similar to ‘go fmt’ (#43566)
• cmd/go: stamp git/vcs current HEAD hash/commit hash/dirty bit in binaries (#37475)
• cmd/go: factor version reading into debug/buildinfo (#39301)
• all: add GOAMD64 environment variable (#45453)
• text/template: add break and continue support (#20531)
• text/template: make and/or operators short-circuit evaluation (#31103)
• cmd/go: add a workspace mode (#45713)

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!