Go 1.7: What's new and shiny?

An overview of the highlights of the new and updated features of Go 1.7

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1. Go 1.7 What's new and shiny?
2. Compiler improvements • Compilation/linking is faster • (Still not fast enough) • Running programs is about 5-35% faster • Filesize up to 20-30% smaller • Adds stack frame pointers for debugging using Linux perf • Binary only packages
3. Vendoring GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT support removed
4. context
5. net/http/httptrace
6. encoding/json • support encoding/decoding maps using keys with int types • Encoder.SetEscapeHTML • Encoder.SetIndent
7. SubTesting
8. Panic if a signal's name is known, it will be printed in the stack trace
9. Additional reading • https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.7 • https://blog.golang.org/context • https://medium.com/@cep21/how-to-correctly-use-context-context- in-go-1-7-8f2c0fafdf39