I never really liked go as a language, but have always enjoyed watching this forum for the news, and seeing how the language evolves.
I am even trying it again every now and then.
Though over the last months the forum became quiter and quiter, not much more than an occasional library release announcement, but that was fine.
I still felt as if there was something going on. Okay, there were some spam posts from time to time, though that happens everywhere.
but over the last 3 or 4 days there has happened a very huge amount of spam. They are coming in quicker than I am able to handle with my “report spam” permissions and I got ratelimited…
Is there some chance that this forum will recover to its old brightness?
I’ve gotten replies to some of my reports and it seems like the SPAM is taken down. But it does feel like we need to figure out a better method of vetting new accounts before letting them post.
I don’t have any feedback about the rest of what you addressed. It WOULD be kind of nice to have some language news posted every once in a while. I guess I’ll keep that in mind next time I see some interesting golang news.
A new garbage collector is now available as an experiment. This garbage collector’s design improves the performance of marking and scanning small objects through better locality and CPU scalability. Benchmark result vary, but we expect somewhere between a 10—40% reduction in garbage collection overhead in real-world programs that heavily use the garbage collector.
It also has an experimental json/v2 implementation.
I tend to use the latest version. I find out either through official announcements on social media or because VS Code shows a notification.
As to forum traffic, I get the impression that not many people are aware of this one. There is quite a lot happening on Reddit, for example, and, thankfully, the endless discussions about if err != nil have subsided there.
Thank you for asking this question. I’ve only started monitoring and participating over the past year and it does seem quiet. I’m leaving for Gopher Con this morning and am going to do a little in person asking people’s opinions. In my view, a good healthy forum benefits all.
It’s not just the obvious spam out there—I’m pretty sure a lot of posts are from bots too (LLM agents). They’re super hard to spot, since they even spin up background stuff like fake GitHub accounts.
A few years back, saying something like that would’ve made you sound kinda paranoid. But nowadays, this stuff is totally possible.
Feel free to PM me if there’s an active goopher Matrix or IRC around
One of these days I’ll start up a Go forum. Forums are fading away into the background but they shouldn’t. They’re a great way to create long-lived communities.
