A plan to bring generic collections to Go 1.28

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Go's Plan 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 Donovan (Go Team)

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IN BRIEF:

• All being well, Go 1.27 is expected to land in the next couple of weeks, but the draft Go 1.27 release notes have been fleshed out some more if you want to get ahead of it.

• go vet is now set to flag formatting pointers with %d in printf.

• Eitam Ring teases KinetiGo, a TinyGo-based toolchain for working with LEGO robotics devices.

• Stacked pull requests are now in public preview on GitHub.

pgx.CollectRows or Why Nice APIs Don't Have To Be Slow — pgx's CollectRows and RowToStructByName helpers were much slower than handwritten loops. The author got caching fixes into pgx 5.6 (released in 2024) and shows how a rethought abstraction closes the gap almost entirely.

zolstein

📄 Wrapping Errors with Defer – A small pattern combining defer with a named error result to avoid repetition while still adding context to errors. Roxy Light

📄 Go's Maps: How Swiss Tables Replaced the Old Bucket Design Gabor Koos

Gore 0.7: A Full-Featured Go REPL Environment — Has all the niceties you'd expect like line editing, history, multi-line input, expression evaluation, the ability to import packages (and, in v0.7, you can create import aliases too) and gopls-powered code completion.

motemen

Goph 2.0: A Native Go SSH Client Library — Supports connections using passwords, private keys, keys with passphrases, doing file transfers, etc. v2 brings a functional options API, context-aware commands, SOCKS5 proxy, jump hosts, and more.

Mohamed El Bahja

• Wish 2.0.2 – Charm's SSH server framework for building terminal-accessible apps. v2.0.2 fixes a bug with apps running under bubbletea.Middleware.

• jsonparser 1.6 – Fast JSON parser offering path-based access without predefined structs and minimal allocations.

• Milvus 3.0 – Go-powered cloud-native vector database built for vector ANN search. (Repo.)

• req 3.60 – Simple, powerful HTTP client library with advanced features.