Go 1.21 Release Candidate
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Re: Go 1.21 Release Candidate
#2This is a big release. Lots of new packages. The language is changing
Re: Go 1.21 Release Candidate
#3Release candidate
Re: Go 1.21 Release Candidate
#4Seems like a really substantial release to me. The new built in functions min, max, and clear are a bit surprising, even having followed the discussions around them. The perf improvements seem pretty great, I’m sure those will get much love here.
Personally, I’m most excited about log/slog and the experimental fix to loop variable shadowing. I’ve never worked in a language with a sane logging ecosystem, so I think slog will be a bit personally revolutionary. And the loop fix will allow me to delete a whole region of my brain. Pretty nice.
Re: Go 1.21 Release Candidate
#5An extremely generic release.
Re: Go 1.21 Release Candidate
#6An extremely generic release.
> New slices package for common operations on slices of any element type. This includes sorting functions that are generally faster and more ergonomic than the sort package.
> New maps package for common operations on maps of any key or element type.
> New cmp package with new utilities for comparing ordered values.
Pun intended? =D
Re: Go 1.21 Release Candidate
#7Seems like a really substantial release to me. The new built in functions min, max, and clear are a bit surprising, even having followed the discussions around them. The perf improvements seem pretty great, I’m sure those will get much love here. Personally, I’m most excited about log/slog and the experimental fix to loop variable shadowing. I’ve never worked in a language with a sane logging ecosystem, so I think sl…
As a non-developer who has only gone as far as "hello world" in Go, I'm baffled by the idea that the log/slog thing is new - that seems like an absolutely basic language feature. TBH I'd say the same about min/max, but could forgive those being absent since Go isn't known for being numerically-focused...
Re: Go 1.21 Release Candidate
#8Seems like a really substantial release to me. The new built in functions min, max, and clear are a bit surprising, even having followed the discussions around them. The perf improvements seem pretty great, I’m sure those will get much love here. Personally, I’m most excited about log/slog and the experimental fix to loop variable shadowing. I’ve never worked in a language with a sane logging ecosystem, so I think sl…
As a non-developer who has only gone as far as "hello world" in Go, I'm baffled by the idea that the log/slog thing is new - that seems like an absolutely basic language feature. TBH I'd say the same about min/max, but could forgive those being absent since Go isn't known for being numerically-focused...
> that seems like an absolutely basic language feature
Most languages have no logging "system" built in at all. Honestly it's really quite rare.
Re: Go 1.21 Release Candidate
#9Huh, I'm glad to see generic Min/Max functions, but the fact that they're built-ins is a little odd to me. I would have expected them to put a generic math library into the stdlib instead. The fact the stdlib math package only works with float64s has always struck me as a poorly thought out decision.
Re: Go 1.21 Release Candidate
#10Seems like a really substantial release to me. The new built in functions min, max, and clear are a bit surprising, even having followed the discussions around them. The perf improvements seem pretty great, I’m sure those will get much love here. Personally, I’m most excited about log/slog and the experimental fix to loop variable shadowing. I’ve never worked in a language with a sane logging ecosystem, so I think sl…
As a non-developer who has only gone as far as "hello world" in Go, I'm baffled by the idea that the log/slog thing is new - that seems like an absolutely basic language feature. TBH I'd say the same about min/max, but could forgive those being absent since Go isn't known for being numerically-focused...
> As a non-developer who has only gone as far as "hello world" in Go, I'm baffled by the idea that the log/slog thing is new - that seems like an absolutely basic language feature.
Then you'd be even more surprised when you learn that the vast majority of languages do not have standard logging library in core.
Most have one or few common libraries that community developed instead, but they are not in stdlib, and if stdlib has one it's usually very simple one (Go had standard logger interface that was too simple for example)