Go Turns 17

Celebrating Go's 17th anniversary, the Go team outlined major recent releases including Go 1.26 and Go 1.27, which introduce general availability for encoding/json/v2, a production goroutine leak profiler, the Green Tea garbage collector, and expanded post-quantum cryptography support. The updates also focus on modernizing generics, reducing memory allocation overhead, and improving developer tooling like go fix and gopls. Open article →