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Go 1.7: What's new and shiny?

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August 02, 2016
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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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Transcript

  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