Go 1.18 was just recently released and includes significant changes to the language, and implementation of the toolchain, runtime, and libraries.
The release maintains the Go 1 "promise of compatability", they expect MOST all Go programs to compile and run as they did before.
- The syntax for function and type declarations now accepts type parameters.
- Parameterized functions and types can be instantiated by following them with a list of type arguments in square brackets.
- The new token ~ has been added to the set of operators and punctuation.
- The syntax for Interface types now permits the embedding of arbitrary types (not just type names of interfaces) as well as union and ~T type elements. Such interfaces may only be used as type constraints. An interface now defines a set of types as well as a set of methods.
- The new predeclared identifier any is an alias for the empty interface. It may be used instead of interface{}.
- The new predeclared identifier comparable is an interface that denotes the set of all types which can be compared using == or !=. It may only be used as (or embedded in) a type constraint.
Includes an implementation of fuzzing as described by the fuzzing proposal.
Not going to go over the specifics in this demo but they can be found here.
To read more about the features of go1.18 see the release notes.
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