Is that link right? You linked to a bug about http client support for Expect: 100-continue, and it looks like a fix was merged in October: https://github.com/golang/go/commit/dab143c8820151538fea908e...
Or are there still problems that aren't mentioned in that issue?
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 1 | 15 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 80 | 17 | 63 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 135 | 18 | 117 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 164 | 20 | 144 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 174 | 26 | 148 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 196 | 30 | 166 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 159 | 21 | 138 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 184 | 34 | 150 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 220 | 45 | 175 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 221 | 27 | 194 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 163 | 13 | 150 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 167 | 24 | 143 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 65 | 15 | 50 |
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Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
80 sourcesThey moved it to 1.7 because it didn't get completed in time. You can see the source code here: https://github.com/golang/go/tree/dev.ssa (In particular, https://github.com/golang/go/compare/dev.ssa is interesting).
It's not clear to me what work is left, but hopefully it gets merged super early in the 1.7 cycle.
In Go 1.6 Beta ReleasedAh good, I've been waiting on a fix for one nasty bug in particular: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/3665
I'm also interested in the vendoring support. I've been using godep and I haven't really taken a look at the vendoring in 1.5 yet (being experimental and all).
In Go 1.6 Beta Releasedblog.golang.org does: blog.golang.org/feed.atom
The linked article is part of the "static" documentation set though, which has no feed.
It's not ideal but Github does provide a "releases" feed, though it only links to the tagged commit (it's essentially a feed dump of https://github.com/golang/go/releases) you at least get a notification of new releases: https://github.com/golang/go/releases.atom
In Go 1.6 Beta ReleasedGo 1.5, 1.5.1 huge page fragmentation on Linux leads to OOM – fixed in 1.5.2
10 points · Open discussionThe Go standard library HTTP client (net/http) changes POST/PUT redirects to GET[1] and it's super annoying.
EDIT: Here's the rationale (from [2]):
"I think the underlying principle of the matter is that if the client is going to resend the POST request body data, then RFC 2616 wants clients to get the user's consent. The trouble is that most client implementations did not resend the POST data when following 301 or 302 redirects. So the principle of getting user consent doesn't really apply.
RFC 7231 (HTTP/1.1 June 2014) changes this. It ratifies the common behavior of 301 and 302 (to not re-POST), and in doing so it leaves it up to the client to determine when it is safe to automatically redirect."
1. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/http/client...
2. https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9348#issuecomment-867903...
In Choosing an HTTP Status CodeWell, they believed it was worth adding something (from a commit today):
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/50c5042047be3af36e7bb478...
In Are Go maps sensitive to data races?Unlike in C you can't tell the garbage collector to "ignore" a large chunk of the memory allocated in the buffer. what ends up happening is Go's GC spends lots of time traversing the heap and marking anyway and end up doing nothing. I know they've made optimizations like here https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9477
but I haven't followed it up and gave it another look yet.
In Fast HTTP package for GoYou can use Go with gomobile https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/Mobile#sdk-applications-an... . It works okay but the lack of support for exporting slices really limits things.
In Perfect – Server-Side SwiftAlso, it's not C it's B. https://github.com/golang/go/blob/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfaea7...
In Show HN: First Commit – find the first commit of any GitHub projectYeah, what's up with that? There are two 1970s and two 1980s commits in the git repo before we hit the real golang stuff (in 2008!). All the old commits do is author a c "hello world" program. Any idea why those are there?
https://github.com/golang/go/commits/master?page=727
EDIT: I just noticed that they're labeled as being by Brian Kernighan. What?
EDIT2: Oh, it's his original hello world code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22Hello,_World!%22_program What's it doing there? Just for novelty's sake?
In Show HN: First Commit – find the first commit of any GitHub projectThe performance cost is negligible, the randomization happens only at the beginning of a range call:
range init's the hashmap iterator:
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/6327e8dc69c47d6355e2623cc4...
hashmap iterator init sets a random starts:
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/hashmap...
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