Go 1.24 is finally here, bringing some exciting new features and optimizations! 🚀 In this video, we break down the key changes, including: ✅ Generic Type Aliases – More flexible type definitions ✅ Weak Pointers – Efficient memory management for caching ✅ AddCleanup – A cleaner alternative to SetFinalizer ✅ Swiss Tables – 30% faster map lookups ✅ Improved Testing – New context support and directory changes ✅ Better JSON Handling – Introducing the omitzero tag ✅ Enhanced Security – OS route type to prevent path traversal attacks ✅ Synthetic Time for Testing – Instant execution of time-sensitive functions If you’re a Go developer, this update is packed with improvements that streamline coding and boost performance. Check out the full breakdown and let us know which feature excites you the most! 🎉 🔗 Relevant Links Release Notes: https://tip.golang.org/doc/go1.24 Code Samples / Blog Source: https://antonz.org/go-1-24 ❤️ More about us Radically better observability stack: https://betterstack.com/ Written tutorials: https://betterstack.com/community/ Example projects: https://github.com/BetterStackHQ 📱 Socials Twitter: https://twitter.com/betterstackhq Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/betterstackhq/ TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@betterstack LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/betterstack 📌 Chapters: 0:00 Intro 0:07 Generic Type Aliases 0:23 Weak Pointers 0:57 Finalizers (AddCleanup) 1:21 Tool directive for go.mod 1:34 Swiss Tables (Map implementation) 2:01 os.Root 2:17 omitzero JSON 2:29 Testing & Benchmarking improvements 3:00 Synthetic Time 3:17 Iterators (Strings & Bytes) 3:48 crypto packages 4:12 HTTP Protocols 4:35 Go command JSON flag

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