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How so? You can still compile with go 1.10

• zeveb 8y ago
  Only for as long as his dependencies can compile with Go 1.10. In my experience it's pretty common for the Go community to rapidly adopt features found in new releases, making it impossible to support old Go versions. I've seen guys commit code requiring a new Go version the day it was released! My own preference is to wait a few months, but I'm naturally conservative.
  • Kubuxu 8y ago
    > I've seen guys commit code requiring a new Go version the day it was released! I will be that guy once Go 1.11 releases. The reason being, Golang finally added feature [1] we were asking for since Jan 2015, it allows us to replace about 3k LOC of platform specific, low level (syscall) and error-prone code with 10 lines. [1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9661 https://github.com/golang/go/issues/9661
  • nxkduudujs 8y ago
    This is a no-problem when you vendor your dependencies.
    • zeveb 8y ago
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