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Re:Go 1.25 Release Notes by latchkey on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @07:05PM (#44882797)
> greentea

I didn't know what it is and had to look it up. Looks like a new GC.

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/73581

Re:Go 1.25 Release Notes by halJordan on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @10:41PM (#44884158)
Is reading the posted article just something we don't do anymore?
Re:Go 1.25 Release Notes by rs186 on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @11:10PM (#44884305)
To be fair, I read the article but still don't know what greentea is. The article never directly refers to the new GC by this name. It appears in a command line option value, that's about it.
Re:Go 1.25 Release Notes by vips7L on Wednesday August 13, 2025 @12:32AM (#44884660)
> The new garbage collector may be enabled by setting GOEXPERIMENT=greenteagc at build time

I don’t know if you’d count that as directly referring to it by name but it’s there.

Re:Go 1.25 Release Notes by rs186 on Thursday August 14, 2025 @05:49AM (#44898593)
The sentence reads

The new garbage collector may be enabled by setting [blurred] at build time

to me, where exact flag value is automatically ignored, because I don't care what's in there. I don't pay attention to such irrelevant details

Re:Go 1.25 Release Notes by vips7L on Thursday August 14, 2025 @09:17AM (#44900037)
Yeah that’s extremely fair.
Re:Go 1.25 Release Notes by latchkey on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @10:45PM (#44884176)
Haven't done that in ages. I open both the page and the comments. The first few comments usually dictate if I'm going to bother with the page.

What I want next is just an AI summary of the comments with vibe analysis ("Is this worth reading?).

Re:Go 1.25 Release Notes by awesome_dude on Tuesday August 12, 2025 @11:17PM (#44884350)
If people were intended to read we wouldn't have to yell at them to RTFM!!