Holy cheese my untyped composite literal proposal from 2015 just got accepted. #golang github.com/golang/go/is...

“Traversal-resistant file APIs” by Damien Neil — go.dev/blog/osroot #golang

I’m tremendously excited about the synctest package. There’s usually a tension between making async code idiomatic or testable. Synctest makes the idiomatic code testable. #golang go.dev/blog/synctest

Christmas cats for @misago.org

20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.

And now, a cat.

The Go protocol buffer Opaque API is released! go.dev/blog/protobu... This is a new, optional version of the generated code API which hides the internal implementation details. It’s been in use inside Google for years now. Congrats to the Go protobuf maintainers on the open source release! #golang

I just closed go.dev/issue/54766 as fixed! Please try out the RC! 🇨🇭┳┳

Yes?

Cocoa.

A silly Go channel trick: The idea behind the gate type (pkg.go.dev/github.com/n...) is to use two channels to store one bit of state. If one channel contains a value the bit is set; if the other it is not.

Hello!

Good morning.

I have been asked by @misago.org to post more pictures of our cats for him to share, so here are the girls enjoying a sunbeam nap.

Hello, Bluesky. Have a cat.

The silky void cat and the floofy muppet cat send you serenity for today.

I added a simple queue example to github.com/neild/gate.