https://tomburton.dev/categories/golang/Recent content in Golang on tomburton.devHugoentom@tomburton.dev (Tom Burton)tom@tomburton.dev (Tom Burton)Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:52:00 +0000https://tomburton.dev/posts/five-upcoming-go-1.26/Mon, 01 Dec 2025 20:52:00 +0000tom@tomburton.dev (Tom Burton)https://tomburton.dev/posts/five-upcoming-go-1.26/<p>Go 1.26 continues the project&rsquo;s focus on performance, memory efficiency, and modernising the standard library. While not as disruptive as generics (1.18) or modules (1.11), this release introduces several quality-of-life improvements that developers will start using immediately.</p> <p>The upcoming release of Go 1.26 (February 2026) includes meaningful improvements across the language, runtime, and tooling.</p> <p>Let&rsquo;s take a look at five of the most impactful changes, based on the <a href="https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.26" title="Go 1.26 Draft Release Notes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreffer ">official draft release notes</a>.</p>