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- Don't start new threads from locked threads or threads that Go did not create.

- LockOSThread/UnlockOSThread now nest.

- LockOSThread + return kills the thread

This is good news for systems programming, as it should allow stuff like ptrace and unshare to behave correctly now! Some context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14472209

> the compilers have been updated to allow the index expression x[1.0 << s]

Honest question: Why would somebody ever want to write such an index expression? Is there an actual use case for this, or is it just a hypothetical corner case?

Time marches on for the heroic gophers working on `dep`, and its collision course with the official toolchain.

https://github.com/golang/dep/wiki/Roadmap

miles to go, before it merges....

The go get command now supports Fossil source code repositories.

Fossil fell short for me in a few too many ways, but I really liked parts of it. I’m happy to see first-class support for it.

Really cool: c-shared works on windows/amd64

This will make it easier to create a dll and slowly migrate old codebases

Go 1.10 Release Notes (DRAFT)