Go just got better

Go 1.24 is here, and it finally makes the language better. This update brings key improvements that fix long-standing issues and make Go even better for developers.

Go 1.24 Release notes:

SwissTable design:

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Go is officially back
Why does everyone love Go 1.24?

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[gradycdenton]

From a cybersecurity perspective, the Root object should prevent directory traversal attacks. So if the user is somehow able to control the path to a resource they cant just spam "../../../../../" a bunch of times in the path.

[Zmey]

Swiss Tables in map in Go are a real performance boots, especially for large data structures. I wonder what other optimizations are waiting for us in the future! Thanks for the review!!!

[mikaelfrosthage]

Another pretty neat thing is that applications in general should become faster, as map is ubiquitous in the standard library.

[sideone]

Go is already such a great language and I always wonder what would even they update here : Then there comes more good stuff.

[bigbraino-bm]

I learned a new thing about swiss tables! The different between chaining and Linear Probing!

[OldKing]

sync-Map is my favorite way to work with data in memory and swiss tables make Redis just that much more obsolete. Sure I can't prefork the app, but it doesn't matter when memory operations are that much faster. Then I simply use SQLite to persist writes from the map for loading on app init.

[arijit..]

I am liking everything about Go 1.24. Also, the nuanced directory-scoped filesystem access feature is also very helpful for creating backend APIs which require you to store a filename after uploading a file. Now, using this feature, we won't have to check if the filename is a path or not to prevent security vulnerabilities.

[OregonEatsAndTales]

Coming here from Rust!🦀 Go is my favorite language now!

[asnafix]

1.24 released MLKEM algorithm which is quantum-resistant asymmetric encryption

[AdamFiregate]

Could you increase the font size? It would be better to present the code.

[mikaelfrosthage]

Funny, I bumped go to version 1.23.6 just a couple days ago. Guess I'm upgrading again today :) Nothing out of the ordinary in this release, but a solid one.

[pablog]

Have they finally fixed error handling?

[jazzdestructor]

i wish they add watch feature inbuilt that is my main issue with go build / go run

[andreichicu]

just yesterday i got bruised by the fact that indexing a string returns a byte, but ranging over it returns a rune. sad

[FlanderJam]

omitzero still feels like it will miss a lot at json encoding/decoding. null is a meaningful value, as are zero values. If your API or db can accept null, or your users need to know about zero values and null, and if you need to know when a field is missing vs when it is null, you are still gonna have to use pointers.

I like Go, but JSON is a rough spot for it if you want to use structs instead of just using maps everywhere.

[devrodox]

now add Enums and we're ready to Go!!

[shinebayar]

What do you mean by "finally"? -_-

[laurosantana]

I wish for a ternary operator... I know that may never came lmao.

[Patrickdaawsome]

This generic type alias would have helped me enjoy my last job so much more

[LielAlmog]

Can we please have the link to the article .