Routing Enhancements for Go 1.22

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<h1>Routing Enhancements for Go 1.22</h1>
  
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  Jonathan Amsterdam, on behalf of the Go team<br>
  13 February 2024
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  <p>Go 1.22 brings two enhancements to the <code>net/http</code> package&rsquo;s router: method

matching and wildcards. These features let you express common routes as
patterns instead of Go code. Although they are simple to explain and use,
it was a challenge to come up with the right rules for selecting the winning
pattern when several match a request.

We made these changes as part of our continuing effort to make Go a great language for building production systems. We studied many third-party web frameworks, extracted what we felt were the most used features, and integrated them into net/http. T...

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