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Go (Golang) just got a massive update

Manpreet Singh
3 min readAug 17, 2021

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Welcome back! Go (or Golang) is an awesome programming language developed by Google, there are tons of uses for this language, and we just got another update for Go! Now, if you want to see the full release log of this new update, check out the link below:

Now let’s talk about some of the highlights of this new update, Go 1.17. First off, the last update we got from Go was about 6 months ago, this was Go 1.16. This version of Go brings 3 different changes, 1) conversions from slice to array pointers 2) unsafe.add and 3) unsafe.slice:

Another awesome feature with Go 1.17 is the addition of the ARM64 architecture, although this language supported ARM64 before, it was only for Linux, macOS, and iOS, now it supports it on all operating systems.

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Manpreet Singh
Manpreet Singh

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