simd: architecture and vector-size agnostic SIMD intrinsics under a GOEXPERIMENT
Read on GitHub Proposal Details This is the first version of the "second level" SIMD api described in 73787; the intent is to provide a portable interface to SIMD ve
Issue #50
Portable SIMD intrinsics accepted behind a GOEXPERIMENT
The portable SIMD intrinsics proposal is now accepted behind a GOEXPERIMENT, giving Go a first cut at an architecture and vector-size agnostic API for hand-tuned numeric code, with sync/atomic also picking up a Uint64Pair for double-word CAS. On the tooling side, GoLand 2026.2 lands with in-IDE profiling, escape analysis and live CPU and memory charts, which pairs oddly well with a week's worth of accepted work aimed squarely at people who care what the hardware is actually doing.
Friday, July 17, 2026 · Issue #50
🐿️ Portable SIMD intrinsics accepted behind a GOEXPERIMENT
The portable SIMD intrinsics proposal is now accepted behind a GOEXPERIMENT, giving Go a first cut at an architecture and vector-size agnostic API for hand-tuned numeric code, with sync/atomic also picking up a Uint64Pair for double-word CAS. On the tooling side, GoLand 2026.2 lands with in-IDE profiling, escape analysis and live CPU and memory charts, which pairs oddly well with a week's worth of accepted work aimed squarely at people who care what the hardware is actually doing.
Accepted Proposals 4
sync/atomic: add Uint64Pair
Read on GitHub I suggest CAS2 is implemented in the atomic package similar to atomic.align64, operational for hardware that supports it. possibly also: - atomic OR -
x/sys/windows: allow specifying Security Capabilities in SysProcAttr
Read on GitHub Proposal Details Allow adding Security Capabilities to [ S
cmd/go: support for Git LFS via new VCS qualifier
Read on GitHub Background When Git LFS is installed on the client machine, cmd/go can work well with Git LFS, but only when using modules not via GOPROXY and GOPATH
Proposals 4
proposal: runtime: add indirect extendible hash map (ixmap) as alternative map implementation
Read on GitHub Proposal Details Author: Vladimir Makarov Last updated: Jul 16, 2026 Proposal Details This proposal adds an alternative Go builtin map implementation
proposal: s/sys/unix: add Recvmmsg on Linux
Read on GitHub Proposal Details The recvmmsg(2) system call has been available since Linux 2.6.33. It is useful for datagram sockets where reducing syscall overhead
proposal: x/tools/go/analysis/passes/modernize: add slices.Clip analyzer to modernize tool
Read on GitHub Proposal Details I propose that we add a go/analysis/passes/modernize/slicesclip.go to replace the first with the second: go y = x[:len(x):len(x)] //
proposal: bytes: export the readSlice method
Read on GitHub Proposal Details readSlice is an unexported method of bytes.Buffer , seen here https://github.com/golang/go/blob/c122d7e6c50f8f1950a99b8e7b2b36e8a54cf
Discussions 8
What's New in GoLand 2026.2
Read on Reddit GoLand 2026.2 helps you find performance bottlenecks, optimize application performance, and modernize your codebase with confidence. This release introduces the new Go Optimization tool window, which
Difference between an empty slice and a nil slice?
Read on Reddit This here page on initializing slices has a section 3 on "Creating a nil slice", e.g. The claim is made that >A nil slice is different from an empty slice (created with \[\]int{}). I don't see the dif
For those who have used Go since around 2018, what changes have had the biggest impact on your day to day development
Read on Reddit I recently realized it's been almost eight years since I last wrote Go professionally. My career has mostly taken me into JavaScript/TypeScript projects. Every company I joined was already using that
I built a message broker in Go to learn distributed systems — a few months later it's 1.0 with 300M soaked messages
Read on Reddit Narad is a queue-first message broker in a single Go binary: WAL-first produce (fsync before the 202), segmented append-only partition logs with zstd, Raft (hashicorp/raft + bbolt) for cluster metadat
Events 1
Monthly Meetup
Read on Meetup Join Seattle Go Programmers @ Online on Wed Aug 12
Articles 5
I got tired of not knowing what my AI agents were doing, so I built a tiny observability tool
Read on Dev.to I build small LLM agents. Not the impressive kind you see in demos, just practical little things that...
I indexed 3.3 GB of my coding agents' logs so I'd stop re-solving the same bugs
Read on Dev.to A few weeks ago I spent most of an evening debugging a postgres connection leak that I was pretty...
A security merge gate is only as good as its false positive rate
Read on Dev.to A hard gate on merge is the right instinct. Security findings are cheapest when they interrupt a...
GoLand 2026.2 Is Now Available!
Read on JetBrains GoLand GoLand 2026.2 is all about helping you understand and improve your Go applications with less effort. This release introduces the new Go Optimization tool window, bringing profiling, escape analysis, a
Building a Distributed Task Queue in Go From Scratch (No Redis, No RabbitMQ)
Read on Medium A distributed task queue and job scheduler in Go, built from first principles: no Kafka, no Redis, no external broker. Continue reading on Medium »
Videos 5
Go Variables… Are Weirdly Complicated | Golang for Devs
Read on YouTube Go was supposed to be simple… The number of ways to create variables is TOO DAMN HIGH, lets talk about it.
093: Agentic engineering is here to stay with Thorsten Ball
Read on go podcast() Hey Thorsten Ball joins us this week and we talk about Amp, agentic engineering, some philosophical debates, you know the usual stuff when software engineers talk about AI and LLM and how it's changin
GoLang Tutorial Chapter 6: If Else Statement in Go | Decision Making in Golang | Hindi | 2026
Read on YouTube Welcome to Chapter 6 of the Complete GoLang Tutorial in Hindi by Letscms Private Limited. In this chapter, you'll learn how to ...
GoLang Tutorial Chapter 7: Switch Statement in Go | Complete Switch Case Tutorial | Hindi | 2026
Read on YouTube Welcome to Chapter 7 of the Complete GoLang Tutorial in Hindi by Letscms Private Limited. In this chapter, you'll learn how to ...
use GO (golang) to create website, SSR SSG everything better than NEXT & NUXT
Read on YouTube Why I am Switch to GO for web development, i was surprised to know SSR and SSG is better in go rather Nextjs or Nuxtjs.
Trending 4
chaitin/SafeLine
Read on GitHub Trending SafeLine is a self-hosted WAF(Web Application Firewall) / reverse proxy to protect your web apps from attacks and exploits.
modelcontextprotocol/registry
Read on GitHub Trending A community driven registry service for Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers.
goreleaser/goreleaser
Read on GitHub Trending Release engineering, simplified
ory/hydra
Read on GitHub Trending Internet-scale OpenID Certified™ OpenID Connect and OAuth2.1 provider that integrates with your user management through headless APIs. Solve OIDC/OAuth2 user cases over night. Consume as a service o
Social 3
A collection of Golang agentic skills that works
Read on Bluesky A collection of Golang agentic skills that works golang github.com/samber/cc-s...
Wrote about why I dropped NATS, Kafka and RabbitMQ from PikoCI and replaced ever
Read on Bluesky Wrote about why I dropped NATS, Kafka and RabbitMQ from PikoCI and replaced everything with a single gRPC stream. The queue was just a doorbell anyway. dev.to/xescugc/why-... golang grpc devops cicd
I didn't write any of the code
Read on Bluesky I didn't write any of the code. Any of it. Claude wrote all of it, I guided and audited. Which is what Intent is for. It just got good enough to compile itself, byte-for-byte identical. Four for four
Jobs 2
GC
Read on Golang.cafe 