June 2, 2024

Golang Release 1.22: version

How to use the new package in Go standard library to work with Go version strings.

With the release of Go 1.22, the Go standard library introduced several new features. As you might have noticed in articles related to the previous release, here we mostly concentrate on the new exciting packages and features that they give us. This article will start this journey, by providing a deeper look into the implementation of the version package in Go. Lang The first function we are ready to examine is the Lang function.

October 8, 2023

Golang Release 1.21: slices - Part 2

How to use the new package in Go standard library to sort slices efficiently.

With the release of Go 1.21, the Go standard library introduced several new features. While we’ve already discussed some of them in previous articles, in this episode, we’ll dive into more advanced enhancements. Naturally, we’ll focus on the new functions designed for sorting slices, which are part of the new slices package. This article will provide a deeper look into the implementation of these three new functions and touch on benchmarking as well.

October 6, 2023

Golang Release 1.21: slices - Part 1

New package in Go standard library that makes easier to work with slices.

As part of the new Go release, several exciting changes have been introduced to the Go ecosystem. While we’ve explored some of these changes in other articles about the maps package and the cmp package, there’s much more to discover beyond these two packages. In this article, we’ll focus on the first part of the slices package, specifically its new search functionality. Like many other updates and newly introduced packages, this one is also built upon the foundation of generics, which were introduced in Go 1.

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September 22, 2023

Golang Release 1.21: cmp

New package in Go standard library that makes easier to compare ordered types.

As the new release of Go came this summer, many of us started to look for the improvements inside its ecosystem. Many new features were introduced, including updates to the tool command to support backward and forward compatibility. New packages appeared inside the Standard Library, including maps and slices. In this article we are covering improvements introduced with the new cmp package. The new package offers three new functions. All of them rely on Generics, a feature introduced in Go version 1.

September 21, 2023

Golang Release 1.21: maps

New package in Go standard library that makes easier to work with maps.

Not too long ago, we witnessed a new release of our favorite programming language. The Go team didn’t disappoint us once again. They introduced numerous new features, including updates to the tool command to support backward and forward compatibility. As always, the standard library has received new updates, and the first one we’ll explore in this article is the new maps package. The new package offers only five new functions (two additional ones were removed from the package: Values and Keys), but they provide significant value.

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