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#615 — August 28, 2026 Read the Web Version 🗓️ If you missed us last week, good news… we're back! As expected, Go 1.27 landed last week, but there's plenty more to get into today :-) __ Your editor, Peter Cooper Go Weekly ⭐ Go 1.27 Released — We spent much of the previous issue anticipating this release, so we'll let it speak for itself, but 1.27 is now ready to go with the final release notes…
#614 — August 14, 2026 Read the Web Version 🏖️ We're taking a break next week, and will be back on August 28. Due to this, and the imminent Go 1.27 release, we're shaking the format up a bit this week…! __ Your editor, Peter Cooper Go Weekly Why Go is an Ideal Language for AI-Assisted Software Engineering — Two Googlers, including Go lead Cameron Balahan, make the case that Go's features, like…
#613 — August 7, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly An Interactive Tour of Go 1.27 — Anton Zhiyanov made interactive tours for Go 1.22 through 1.26 but decided to stop . Jesús Espino has picked up the baton and tackles Go 1.27's huge array of features here, from generic methods and the goroutineleak profile to the new uuid package and experimental portable SIMD. Jesús Espino 💡 No, Go 1.27 has…
#612 — July 31, 2026 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Go's Proposals for Generic Collection Types in Go 1.28 — An umbrella proposal from Go's Collections working group covering several collection data structures intended for the eventual Go 1.28 standard library. Includes a canonical set.Set type, hash-based maps and sets with custom hashers, an ordered map, and a new generic binary heap. Alan…
