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The fun part about a programming language like C is that although the language doesn’t directly support many features including object-oriented programming and generics, there’s ...

Now available in a production release, Go 1.18 introduces ‘the most significant change’ to Go since the programming language debuted in 2012. Go 1.18, featuring highly anticipated generics ...

Newly introduced in Go 1.18, generics reduce the amount of boilerplate you need in your code, without sacrificing backwards compatibility Many programming languages have the concept of generic ...

Around 10,000 developers who use the Go programming language to build systems have given their feedback on the Google-backed language in Golang's 2020 developer survey. Unsurprisingly, adoption of Go ...

A meta-program is "executed" as the result of template instantiation (therefore, before compiled code is produced). Meta-program results are then compiled and merged into object code, including any ...

The Go programming language has received an update: Version 1.24 is now available. This version brings numerous new features and optimizations that affect language support as well as performance, ...