cmd/cgo: arrange to pass unmodified Go source files to compiler, go/types
Read on GitHub Currently cgo support is implemented with cmd/cgo as a separate tool that analyzes cgo-using Go code and transforms it into standard Go code. This pro
Issue #90
cgo gets a rework: unmodified Go source to the compiler
The accepted proposal to have cmd/cgo hand unmodified Go source files to the compiler and go/types is the item to sit with, folding a long-standing preprocessing step back into the toolchain proper. It lands alongside a fresh, separate proposal to make cgo work without a C toolchain on the host, so the shape of cgo is clearly on the table right now. On the sidelines, a dev.to piece pushes back on the idea that function coloring and context propagation aren't a form of infection, which is a familiar argument but a reasonable one to reread.
Friday, September 11, 2026 · Issue #90
🐿️ cgo gets a rework: unmodified Go source to the compiler
The accepted proposal to have cmd/cgo hand unmodified Go source files to the compiler and go/types is the item to sit with, folding a long-standing preprocessing step back into the toolchain proper. It lands alongside a fresh, separate proposal to make cgo work without a C toolchain on the host, so the shape of cgo is clearly on the table right now. On the sidelines, a dev.to piece pushes back on the idea that function coloring and context propagation aren't a form of infection, which is a familiar argument but a reasonable one to reread.
Accepted Proposals 1
Proposals 2
proposal: cmd/cgo: cgo without a C toolchain
Read on GitHub Cgo Without C Toolchain Background Cgo provides a mechanism to incorporate C code into Go programs. Currently, it requires a C toolchain to be present
proposal: database/sql, database/sql/driver: use encoding.TextMarshaler / TextUnmarshaler
Read on GitHub Proposal Details database/sql/driver's default converter: https://cs.opensource.google/go/go/+/refs/tags/go1.27.1:src/database/sql/driver/types.go;l=2
Discussions 7
More or less code, broken into multiple files.
Read on Reddit I've been working on a project for a couple of years. It's a little over 7000 lines of code. Over time, it has been split across 26 Go files. Honestly, it's getting harder to maintain, even using VS C
proposal: cmd/cgo: cgo without a C toolchain · Issue #81450 · golang/go
Read on Reddit Cgo Without C Toolchain Background Cgo provides a mechanism to incorporate C code into Go programs. Currently, it requires a C toolchain to be present on the host system whenever building code with...
I ran the Go compiler in the browser. There is no server. There are no goroutines either.
Read on Reddit Hello Go enthusiasts. I first added QBasic to the Kavak project, then Lua. Now, I’ve integrated Go as well. Let me clarify right away: this is neither a Go interpreter written in JavaScript nor a tr
Zasper: Jupyter IDE built in Go
Read on Reddit I built Zasper, an open-source IDE for Jupyter notebooks. I wanted to share it here again as I made the first stable release today. About Zasper: https://zasper.io Try it with Pyodide kernel on browse
Benchspotter: a companion app for performance work in go
Read on Reddit The tooling we get in golang to do benchmarking, profiling, escape analysis ... is great, but it's often a hassle to keep track of the results, analyse, extract insights, and share them. Some tools al
Question: Is there a way to browse root comments sorted by vote ranking from "Small Projects" label?
Read on Reddit I like looking through the various small projects people have been working on every now and then, but I like to wait a month or two. Most interesting passion projects, or things of genuine value, will
Events 2
Ultimate AI w/ Bill Kennedy
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Book Club > Get Programming With Go
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Articles 5
Function coloring is real and pretending context propagation isn't infection
Read on Dev.to Someone recently attempted to make the bold claim that function color isn't a real phenomenon....
Property-Based Testing in Go with gopter: Finding Edge Cases You’d Never Think Of
Read on Medium A few months back I was reviewing a PR for a discount calculation function on our payments service. Continue reading on Medium »
How I connected Clerk webhooks to a Go + chi server and the some gaps the docs don’t mention
Read on Medium It was my first time working with Clerk, and since my project needed low latency and fast shipping, I used Golang with Chi and used Clerk… Continue reading on Medium »
Hardening belongs in the deploy tool
Read on Medium What a cheap VM’s auth log says, and the two commands we added because of it. Continue reading on CodeToDeploy »
Rust vs Go in 2026: Which One Should You Actually Learn?
Read on Medium If you’re choosing a programming language to learn in 2026, you’ve probably seen the same two names come up again and again: Continue reading on Medium »
Videos 5
Testing Production APIs with AI Coding Agents | Golang Monolith Mastery | Episode 23
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20. Generics in Go Language | Bangla
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22. Validating Request Data | Golang Monolith Mastery
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Day 5 | Learning Golang
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The Golang compiler has an odd wrinkle
Read on YouTube As a Rust developer, I was poking around Go because I needed to compile an app, but failed mostly because I know almost ...
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Security 3
OpenChoreo: Cross-project command execution and wirelog view access via OpenChoreo openchoreo-api exec and wirelogs endpoints in github.com/openchoreo/openchoreo
Read on Go Vulnerabilities OpenChoreo: Cross-project command execution and wirelog view access via OpenChoreo openchoreo-api exec and wirelogs endpoints in github.com/openchoreo/openchoreo
OpenChoreo: Authenticated OS command injection via OpenChoreo Workflow Plane templates enables code execution in privileged pods in github.com/openchoreo/openchoreo
Read on Go Vulnerabilities OpenChoreo: Authenticated OS command injection via OpenChoreo Workflow Plane templates enables code execution in privileged pods in github.com/openchoreo/openchoreo
SiYuan: SQL Query in Block Search Exposes Hidden Published Document Content in github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel
Read on Go Vulnerabilities SiYuan: SQL Query in Block Search Exposes Hidden Published Document Content in github.com/siyuan-note/siyuan/kernel
Social 1
It's been a while
Read on Bluesky It's been a while! I decided to try my hand at BGP and have released my first new open source golang networking library in years: github.com/mdlayher/bgp. More to come soon!
Jobs 2
Anterior (Sequoia-backed, Series B) | Senior Member of Technical Staff | On-Site (New York, NY) | Full Time | $230,000–$300,000 +...
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