Russ Cox
The [proposal review group meets regularly](https://go.googlesource.com/proposal/+/master/README.md#proposal-review) (roughly weekly) to review pending proposal issues and move them along in the [proposal process](https://golang.org/s/proposal). Review consists primarily of checking that discussion is ongoing,...
Multi-prime RSA keys (those that are products of **three** or more large primes) are discouraged in general and rarely used. As of Go 1.20, the PrecomputedValues.CRTValues supporting multiprime keys will...
Many people believe the `go` line in the `go.mod` file specifies which Go toolchain to use. This proposal would correct this widely held misunderstanding by making it reality. At the...
#!watchflakes default
reflect.SliceHeader and reflect.StringHeader were marked deprecated in the Go 1.19 cycle and in the Go 1.20 cycle, both times without a proposal discussion. Filing this issue for the proposal discussion.
go test -v -fuzz=Decode image/gif consistently produces output like: ``` ... === RUN TestEncodeWrappedImage --- PASS: TestEncodeWrappedImage (0.06s) === FUZZ FuzzDecode fuzz: elapsed: 0s, gathering baseline coverage: 0/5 completed fuzz:...
Go 1.21 introduced a formalization of how we handle compatible-but-breaking changes, defining configuration knobs called GODEBUG settings that let users control whether or when these changes happen in their specific...
In February I posted a series of blog posts defining [_Transparent Telemetry_](https://research.swtch.com/telemetry), and we had a lively discussion on #58409. In the original posts, the design was opt-out. Based on...
Add this to runtime/proc.go: ``` diff --git a/src/runtime/proc.go b/src/runtime/proc.go index 401dcd0a11..6d8fde4349 100644 --- a/src/runtime/proc.go +++ b/src/runtime/proc.go @@ -267,6 +267,10 @@ func main() { // has a main, but it is...
After discussion on https://github.com/golang/go/issues/45757#issuecomment-1646172720 and #61386, it would help many different use cases to add os.CopyFS that copies an fsys.FS into the local file system, safely. I propose to add...