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Generics in Go: three years later, what has survived

Generics arrived in Go in March 2022 with high expectations and some skepticism. Three years on, idiomatic code barely uses them on the surface, but they have transformed deep libraries: type-safe collections, database clients, concurrency primitives. This analysis examines what has taken hold and why.

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WebAssembly: The Component Model as the Next Frontier

WebAssembly is moving beyond the browser through WASI, the standard system interface, and the component model, which defines declarative WIT interfaces so modules written in different languages can compose with each other. Cold start lands around 1 ms versus roughly 500 ms for a container, a key difference for serverless and edge computing teams.