IEG Growth Platform Technology Team

Nov 29, 2021 · Backend Development

Understanding Go 1.16 embed: Use Cases, Implementation Details, and Design Rationale

This article explains the Go 1.16 embed feature by describing the typical configuration‑file problem, showing traditional file‑reading code versus embed‑based code, and diving into the compiler’s embedcfg handling and the underlying design philosophy of the new io/fs package.