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Go 1.18 Beta 1 is released

• egeozcan 5y ago
  If you didn't follow, significance of this release for most: Generics, finally! Draft release notes are here: https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.18 https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.18
• pcj-github 5y ago
  A bit surprised by: "The go command now embeds version control information in binaries including the currently checked-out revision, commit time, and a flag indicating whether edited or untracked files are present. Version control information is embedded if the go command is invoked in a directory within a Git, Mercurial, Fossil, or Bazaar repository, and the main package and its containing main module are in the same repository. This information may be omitted using the flag -buildvcs=false." Curious why this was included.
  • eklitzke 5y ago
    So you can tell if someone is filing a bug report with a pristine version of go built from unmodified source code, or if the go binary they are filing with a bug report has modifications.
    • pcj-github 5y ago
      OK so this is about the go binary itself, not a new stamping behavior of binaries coming out of the compiler/linker?
      • cachvico 5y ago
        No, it stamps the output binaries.
  • naikrovek 5y ago
    does that not seem semi-valuable to you? I mean if you're someone that passes off altered code as official code then yeah it would bother you, I guess. I'm not saying you do that, but I'm sure someone does.