Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2

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<h1>Evolving the Go Standard Library with math/rand/v2</h1>
  
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  Russ Cox<br>
  1 May 2024
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  <p>Since Go 1 was <a href="/blog/go1">released in March 2012</a>,

changes to the standard library have been
constrained by Go’s compatibility promise.
Overall, compatibility has been a boon for Go users,
providing a stable base for production systems,
documentation, tutorials, books, and more.
Over time, however, we’ve realized mistakes in the original APIs
that cannot be fixed compatibly; in other cases,
best practices and convention have changed.
We need a plan for making important, breaking changes too.

This blog post is about Go 1.22’s new math/rand/v2...

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