--- title: "Go Newsletter Issue #74" publication: "Go Weekly" issue: 74 published_at: "2015-09-03" canonical_url: "https://golangweekly.com/issues/74" --- Go Newsletter 74 . [Read this on the Web](http://golangweekly.com/issues/74) [Go Newsletter](http://golangweekly.com) Issue 74 — September 3, 2015 Featured [Go GC: Prioritizing Low Latency and Simplicity](https://blog.golang.org/go15gc?utm_source=golangweekly&utm_medium=email) Richard Hudson looks at the future of garbage collection in Go, noting that Go needs a GC designed for 2025 and beyond, a future with ‘no place for stop-the-world GC pauses’. There's [extensive discussion on HN](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10149961) about this too. 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