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What r/golang is talking about this week

r/golang has 383,135 members and 3 posts in the last 24 hours, with about 1.9 comments an hour right now. From the Redlisten index, refreshed daily.

383,135members
3posts in the last 24 hours, newest 2 h ago
1.9comments an hour right now, newest 8 h ago
439points on the top thread this week

Words coming up in r/golang this week

github7code7json6source6cli6projects5websocket5library5open5software4everything4fix4

Top threads this week

  1. The future of Software Engineering is boring
    439 points251 comments3 d ago
  2. Proposal Accepted: Generic Sets
    277 points22 comments7 d ago
  3. Why is naming variables in Go so weird, ex: r, w, c, cfg, etcIs it an obsession with simplicity and conciseness in everything

    Why is naming variables in Go so weird, ex: r, w, c, cfg, etc.? Is it an obsession with simplicity and conciseness in everything

    216 points162 comments4 d ago
  4. Go 1.27: encoding/json/v2, Stricter Defaults, and Finally [] for Nil Slices · cekrem.github.io
    77 points1 comment6 d ago
  5. New to go, just wanna geek out a bit

    Go is absolutely awesome. I haven't gotten to the point where I can create applications or worked really with memory management. But god structs and interfaces are so damn cool. Something about...

    65 points13 comments4 d ago
  6. How hard could implementing DTLS 1.3 possibly be?
    60 points9 comments5 d ago
  7. GoLand 2026.3 Is Here: JetBrains Air Integration, New Profiling Skills for AI Agents, and IDE Improvements
    57 points12 comments6 d ago
  8. What does go do to a for loop that does not have anything going on with it?

    I observed that even when a \for {}\ loop doesn't actually do anything. It seems as if it's doing something inside the loop as confirmed by the fact that my CPU usage goes up when I monitor it....

    35 points29 comments7 d ago
  9. The MustCreate Pattern for Go Tests
    33 points22 comments5 d ago
  10. gobwas/ws v1.5.0: Go 1.27 flate fix, OOM vuln fix, 4x faster masking with asm

    - Fix for Go 1.27 compress/flate changes, which made permessage-deflate extension incorrectly fail (221) - Fix for readers allocating whatever payload length the peer declared (223, advisory) -...

    30 points2 comments4 d ago

Newest posts

  1. How do you test reconnect logic in long-lived WebSocket clients?
    1 points0 comments2 h ago
  2. Forge: catching entire classes of bugs in agent-written code
    1 points0 comments8 h ago
  3. Go 1.27.4 security release: cgo flags and a net/http fix
    1 points0 comments18 h ago
  4. Go Turns 17 - The Go Programming Language
    1 points0 comments1 d ago
  5. `uf`: better documentation than `man` or `tldr`, autocomplete for everything in `fish`/`zsh`/`bash`, CLI code generation for multiple languages, etc etc.
    1 points0 comments1 d ago
  6. How do you guys write contracts for your APIs?
    20 points23 comments2 d ago
  7. Small Projects
    27 points14 comments2 d ago
  8. I Load Tested Go’s New JSON v2
    0 points5 comments2 d ago
  9. The future of Software Engineering is boring
    439 points251 comments3 d ago
  10. Need help with this error
    0 points6 comments3 d ago
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