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Aug 18, 2021 · Backend Development

What’s New in Go 1.17? Performance Boosts, ARM Support, and Unsafe Enhancements

Go 1.17, now officially released, brings roughly a 5% performance uplift, a 2% reduction in amd64 binary size, adds native Windows ARM64 support, introduces pruned module graphs to streamline dependencies, and expands unsafe package capabilities with slice‑to‑array pointer conversion, unsafe.Add, and unsafe.Slice.