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Go2014–2026
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go

The Go programming language

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What it is

The Go programming language

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Where it is used

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What people are saying

> To convert the Stream.Reader to an std.Io.Reader, we need to call its interface() method. To get a std.io.Writer from an Stream.Writer, we need the address of its &interface…

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This week on Hacker News

Nov 8–Nov 15 UTC · Direct repository links and separately labeled related project stories. Indexed through 11/15/2026, 10:49:33 PM UTC.

No direct repository links were found in the indexed HN discussions over the past seven days. Older discussions are available below.

Mentions over time

HN mentions by year1,944 dated mentions

Observed mentions: 2014-12-08 08:41:45 UTC to 2026-10-22 10:17:39 UTC.

0501001502002014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 16 mentions; 1 submissions, 15 comments20142015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 80 mentions; 17 submissions, 63 comments2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 135 mentions; 18 submissions, 117 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 164 mentions; 20 submissions, 144 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 174 mentions; 26 submissions, 148 comments2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 196 mentions; 30 submissions, 166 comments2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 159 mentions; 21 submissions, 138 comments20202021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 184 mentions; 34 submissions, 150 comments2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 220 mentions; 45 submissions, 175 comments2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 221 mentions; 27 submissions, 194 comments2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 163 mentions; 13 submissions, 150 comments2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 167 mentions; 24 submissions, 143 comments2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 65 mentions; 15 submissions, 50 comments. Incomplete calendar period.2026*

* An incomplete calendar period is marked with an outlined bar. Its count is not directly comparable with a full period.

Counts come from the repository’s dated source evidence. Index cutoff: 2026-11-02 08:16:59 UTC.

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PeriodStart (UTC)End (exclusive, UTC)MentionsSubmissionsComments
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16115
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC801763
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC13518117
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16420144
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC17426148
20192019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC19630166
20202020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC15921138
20212021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC18434150
20222022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC22045175
20232023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC22127194
20242024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16313150
20252025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC16724143
2026 (partial)2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC651550

From the project README

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The Go Programming Language Go is an open source programming language that makes it easy to build simple, reliable, and efficient software. Gopher image by Renee French, licensed under Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution license. Our canonical Git repository is located at https://go.googlesource.com/go. There is a mirror of the repository at https://github.com/golang/go. Unless otherwise noted, the Go source files are distributed under the BSD-style license found in the LICENSE file. Download and Install Binary Distributions Official binary distributions are available at https://go.dev/dl/. After downloading a binary release, visit https://go.dev/doc/install for installation instructions. Install From Source If a binary distribution is not available for your combination of operating system and architecture, visit https://go.dev/doc/install/source for source installation instructions. Contributing Go is the work of thousands of contributors. We appreciate your help! To contribute, please read the contribution guidelines at https://go.dev/doc/contribute. Note that the Go project uses the issue tracker for bug reports and proposals only. See https://go.dev/wiki/Questions for a list of places to ask questions about the Go language.
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What Hacker News says

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correct_horse·Dec 24, 2019
Go has no proper solution to garbage collector ballast, a hack which businesses you've heard of are using in the wild. see https://blog.twitch.tv/en/2019/04/10/go-memory-ballast-how-i... and https://github.com/golang/go/issues/23044. A golang team member's reasons for not adding a minimum heap size include that it would require more testing each release, and that they might want to have a max heap size hint instead. I posted a comment similar to this one recently, but it seems more relevant here.
In Java JIT vs. Java AOT vs. Go for Small, Short-Lived Processes
cornishpixels·Dec 19, 2019
> NOWHERE IN THE SOURCE CODE IS THIS FACT DOCUMENTED. The referenced commit (https://github.com/golang/go/commit/675eb72c285cd0dd44a5f280...) has /* SIGSETXID; see issue 3871, 9400 /, / SIGCANCEL; see issue 6997 */ > The way things stand, nobody would ever know why the signals are set up the way they are unless they trawled through 40,000 commits. Yes, 40,000: git log --oneline | wc -l. git blame exists. 675eb72c285 src/runtime/os1_linux.go (Austin Clements 2014-12-19 16:16:17 -0500 417) var sa sigactiont
In Rob Pike on good commit messages (2014)
thibran·Dec 9, 2019
Go is a great language with a great standard library. The big downside is, that you have to play compiler and write all the time boring algorithms yourself (because go has no generics). Want to filter a slice -> do it yourself Want to map a function over a slice -> do it yourself Want to pop out a value of a slice -> a[len(a)-1], a[:len(a)-1] ... There are worse things in the world, still it's the reason why I don't use go any more. More examples: https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/SliceTricks
In The main sell point of Go is not simplicity, but overall balance and flexibility

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