Go language adds much-anticipated generics
Go 1.18, featuring highly anticipated generics capabilities, has moved to a second beta release. However, Go’s developers have postponed the production release of Go 1.18 until March, instead of February, as originally planned. A Go 1.18 release candidate now is expected in February.Published January 31, the second Go 1.18 beta fixes some obscure bugs in generics, with the goal of ensuring a more stable final release. Generics has been called the most-significant change to the programming language since the release of Go 1.0 in 2012. The initial beta was released December 14, 2021.To read this article in full, please click here
Go 1.18, featuring highly anticipated generics capabilities, has moved to a second beta release. However, Go’s developers have postponed the production release of Go 1.18 until March, instead of February, as originally planned. A Go 1.18 release candidate now is expected in February.
Published January 31, the second Go 1.18 beta fixes some obscure bugs in generics, with the goal of ensuring a more stable final release. Generics has been called the most-significant change to the programming language since the release of Go 1.0 in 2012. The initial beta was released December 14, 2021.