

Go 1.16 was officially released yesterday 💥 🎉 🎊 !
🥳 Go 1.16 is released!
— Go (@golang) February 16, 2021
🗞 Blog: https://t.co/PODJm9sYh7
📦 Download: https://t.co/cPxS4mbYno#golang pic.twitter.com/OlMirpBP4C
And yes everybody is excited about the new //go:embed
directive and the Apple Silicon support, but there are some other interesting changes.
Warns when calling Fatal
in goroutines.
go install
now supports arguments with suffixes, what this is means is that running something like:
go install github.com/MarioCarrion/nit/cmd/nit@v0.6.5
Will work, and more importantly will not modify the main go.mod
, which in practice should reduce the amount of explicit imported packages, that should change the tools.go
paradigm a bit in some cases.
io/ioutil
io/ioutil
still works but the recommended way is now to either use the corresponding io
or os
types, in practice the API is basically the same only the packages change.
os/signal
NotifyContextA new function called NotifyContext
added, allows using context.Context
for handling signal events, simplifying the previous channel-based pattern.
Looking forward to Go 1.17!