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Golang Got a Huge Update!

2 min readAug 4, 2022

Welcome back! Golang is an awesome programing language with a ton of capability, if you’re new to Golang, check out the link below to learn more about it:

This is everything you need to know about Golang in 2022

Welcome back! Golang is one of my favorite programming languages of all time, it can really be used to build anything…

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Golang just ended up getting its next update, this is Golang version 1.19! If you want to see all of the changes within this update, here is a link to their release log:

Go 1.19 is released! - The Go Programming Language

Go 1.19 adds richer doc comments, performance improvements, and more.

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Let’s take a look at some of these changes!

Doc Comments Updates

This new version of Golang also support links, lists, and clearer heading syntax within doc comments!

Memory Model Updates

This new version of Go will now explicitly define behaviors of the sync/atomic package, this should make it easier to use atomic values.