spec: remove string(int)
Read on GitHub Targeting Go 1.28 — The conversion of an integer to a string was put in very early to bootstrap formatted printing, if I remember correctly. It's odd, though, and no
Issue #100
Go accepts removal of string(int) conversion, targeting 1.28
The language spec is finally losing string(int), with Rob Pike's proposal to remove the conversion accepted and targeted for Go 1.28. It's a small thing that has confused newcomers for years (the bootstrap-era shortcut that turns 65 into "A" instead of "65"), and its retirement pairs neatly with the other accepted proposals landing today: a v2 signers API for x/crypto/ssh and goroutine labels on tests to make timeout debugging less of a guessing game.
Friday, September 25, 2026 · Issue #100
🐿️ Go accepts removal of string(int) conversion, targeting 1.28
The language spec is finally losing string(int), with Rob Pike's proposal to remove the conversion accepted and targeted for Go 1.28. It's a small thing that has confused newcomers for years (the bootstrap-era shortcut that turns 65 into "A" instead of "65"), and its retirement pairs neatly with the other accepted proposals landing today: a v2 signers API for x/crypto/ssh and goroutine labels on tests to make timeout debugging less of a guessing game.
Accepted Proposals 3
x/crypto/ssh: refactor signers API
Read on GitHub This is the initial proposal for a new API series, marked with the V2 suffix, intended to replace the existing API once the x/crypto/ssh package is mo
testing: add goroutine labels to tests
Read on GitHub Proposal Details Debugging tests timeouts can be frustrating when multiple tests fail to complete. This was improved recently with the code that print
Discussions 4
“Platform-independent SIMD in Go” by David Chase and Junyang Shao — https:// go.
Read on Mastodon “Platform-independent SIMD in Go” by David Chase and Junyang Shao — https:// go.dev/blog/simd-experiment golang
Platform-independent SIMD in Go
Read on Lobsters Go 1.27 adds an experimental platform-agnostic SIMD API
ArchitectureKit: A CQRS/ES Application Framework for Golang
Read on Hacker News Building blocks for DDD-based applications with CQRS and event sourcing, in Go, on top of the EventSourcingDB. - thenativeweb/architecturekit-golang
Provider sandboxes only know how to succeed, so I built an open-source tool that makes them fail on purpose
Read on Reddit I've maintained payment integrations for years. The bugs that hurt were never on the happy path. They were in retry and error handling, which sandboxes never exercise: no unexpected declines, no timeo
Articles 5
Building a Custom Named Entity Recognition (NER) Service with Go and spaCy
Read on Medium Wrapping Python ML models with a Go API for production-scale entity extraction Continue reading on Medium »
What If an ERP Framework Had Almost No Dependencies?
Read on Medium Building Sumeru: a modular ERP framework in Go, designed around stability, simplicity, and fewer dependencies. Continue reading on Medium »
Petstore (https://petstore.swagger.io/) in three stacks: Go Fiber vs Helidon SE vs Vert.x
Read on Medium I compared Petstore APIs that do the same work on the same database. This article is what we built, how we measured, and what the trial… Continue reading on Medium »
Why We Chose Loom to Power Tera
Read on Medium Tera is Teradata’s agentic coworker for enterprise data work. Loom is the open-source, multi-agent framework, written in Go, that powers… Continue reading on Build with Teradata »
Unleash AI Magic: Building Smart Agents with Gemini and Go! ✨
Read on Medium Alright, Gopher buddies, let’s be real for a sec. Have you ever looked at your Go applications and thought, “Man, wouldn’t it be cool if… Continue reading on Medium »
Videos 5
Learn Golang: Build 3 Powerful Finance Apps Fast
Read on YouTube Learn Golang by building practical finance and investing applications from scratch. In this hands-on tutorial, you'll discover how ...
Agent Substrate : des millions de sandboxes d'agents, 10x plus denses, resume sous 500 ms
Read on YouTube Faire tourner des millions d'agents sur un seul cluster, en Go Agent Substrate multiplexe tes sandboxes avec 10x de densité et ...
Golang and Micro-Frontends — But With a Reason This Time | Day 36
Read on YouTube Aaj ka din solid tha — prep, office, body, sab chala. Aur do cheezein jo maine soch-samajh ke choose ki. DSA course continue ...
Maximum Subarray in Golang | Data Structures and Algorithms using Golang
Read on YouTube Subarray in Golang | DSA Array Problem | Data Structures & Algorithms Welcome to another video in the Data Structures ...
Trending 3
Asymptote-Labs/agent-beacon
Read on GitHub Trending The cross-harness self-improving memory layer for AI agents.
autobrr/autobrr
Read on GitHub Trending Modern, easy to use download automation for torrents and usenet.
getprobo/probo
Read on GitHub Trending Open source solutions for SOC2, GDPR, and ISO27001
Security 1
Panic via negative shared-string index in github.com/xuri/excelize
Read on Go Vulnerabilities In github.com/xuri/excelize/v2, parsing a spreadsheet cell with a negative shared-string index causes a runtime panic. The shared-string lookup in xlsxC.getValueFrom checks only the upper bound of the
Social 2
“Platform-independent SIMD in Go” by David Chase and Junyang Shao — https://go.d
Read on Bluesky “Platform-independent SIMD in Go” by David Chase and Junyang Shao — https://go.dev/blog/simd-experiment golang
yzma 1.28 is out
Read on Bluesky yzma 1.28 is out! Run local AI models from Go with no CGo. Support for the new @hf.co llama.cpp v0.5.0, OpenVINO, autoselect CUDA, updated benchmarks, more WASM support. Go get it right now! yzma.ai g
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