Go 1.24: Weak Pointers, Improved Finalizers, and Blazing-Fast Maps
2025-01-17
Go 1.24, slated for a February release, packs a punch with significant improvements. This interactive tutorial highlights key features like weak pointers, enhanced finalizers, a highly optimized map implementation using SwissTable, concurrent hash-trie maps, directory-scoped filesystem access, and more. Example code showcases usage and performance gains. Testing is also enhanced with synthetic time for testing, simplified logging, and new string and byte iterators. These improvements significantly boost Go's development efficiency and performance.