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Golang

Golang 1.21, the latest stable release of this programming language, is now available in Fedora 39. Notable changes include:

  • New built-in functions min, max, and clear

  • More precise specification of package initialization order

  • Increased power and precision of type inference

  • Improved support for forward and backward compatibility in the Go toolchain

  • Faster build speed by up to 6% thanks to building the compiler itself with profile-guide optimization (PGO)

For more details, see the upstream release notes.