Go 1.16 Release Notes

Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by grey-area on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @01:34AM (#26163397)

I do agree, I feel like they’ve used this hack to sneak changes into the language which technically don’t break their Go 1 guarantee. I hope they tidy that up in Go 2 and add proper macro commands with a syntax the compiler checks.

Otherwise these magic comments will grow into their own unaudited meta language with no formal spec, just a few usage examples.

This and struct tags (another stringy metalanguage) are the bits I’m not keen on in Go.

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Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by remus on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:49AM (#26163787)

> I feel like they’ve used this hack to sneak changes into the language which technically don’t break their Go 1 guarantee.

The go 1 guarantee only says that existing go programs will continue to compile correctly on new releases. It doesn't say that new programs will compile correctly on old releases.

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Re:Go 1.16 Release Notes by oscardssmith on Wednesday February 17, 2021 @02:23AM (#26163665)

I think Julia makes clear how nice a good macro system can be. From simple things like @btime to the domain specific languages added by libraries like jump, macros just make a language way better. The only hard part is that once you have a good macro system, you will get lots of new users try to use it who take shouldn't.

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