Happy birthday to Go - 7 years old today, plus more Go goodies

As Go turns 7 today, core team member Russ Cox reflects on Go’s maturity. Here’s to many more birthdays for the language.

A quick writeup of some of the features coming to Go 1.8, due for final release in early 2017.

After prototyping the idea of alias declarations in Go, 2 major issues have been discovered that have resulted in the idea being pushed back to Go 1.9.

Capture the complete state of your Go applications at the time of error. See all goroutines and variables. Inspect what's waiting in your channels. Gain deep insight into your application and take control of your errors.

Use q.Q instead of fmt.Printf and your variables will be printed in a way that’s more useful in debugging scenarios.

Boasts full ES5.1 support, that it passes nearly all TC39 tests tagged ES5, and that it’s 6-7x faster than Otto, the Go JavaScript interpreter.

Makes it easy to print text and use ANSI colors on the terminal.

An open-source abstraction on top of Amazon S3, Microsoft Azure Blob Store, Google Cloud Storage, and more for interacting with such storage providers in Go.

Katrina Owen tells the tale of taming a messy codebase. 17 minutes.