Go 1.14, the latest version of the Google-developed open source programming language used to create Docker, Kubernetes, Istio, and other cloud-native computing projects, is now available as a production release.
The Go upgrade, released February 25, improves the runtime and compiler. Version 1.14 also will be the last to support 32-bit Apple platforms, according to release notes.
With the Go runtime improvements, the performance of most use cases of defer has been boosted to incur nearly no overhead, compared to calling the deferred function directly. As a result, defer now can be used in performance-critical code without overhead concerns.
