Go team to improve support for AI assistants

Users of the Go language can expect improved support for AI coding agents in the coming year, according to the Go team. Also in the works is an overhauled go fix command that promises greater developer productivity.

In a November 14 blog post marking the 16th anniversary of Google’s open source release of Go as an experimental language, the Go team noted development plans for the year head. Deeper support for AI coding agents was among the items mentioned. The team said it has been working to provide “well-lit paths” for building with Go and AI, evolving the language platform with care for the evolving needs of today’s developers, and building tools and capabilities that help both human developers and AI assistants and systems alike.

The upcoming Go 1.26 release, meanwhile, will include a total overhaul of the go fix command, a tool that uses static code analyzers to find old idioms and suggests modern replacements. With Go 1.26, expected to be released in February 2026, go fix — currently a dormant command with obsolete analyzers — will feature a suite of new analyzers that will suggest fixes that use newer features of the Go language and library. Also planned for Go are ongoing improvements to the gopls language server and the VS Code Go extension.

Other goals for Go include:

General availability of the Green Tea garbage collector, which promises to reduce workload times. It was featured in an experimental status in Go 1.25.

Native support for Single Instruction Multiple Data (SIMD) hardware features.

Runtime and standard library support for writing code that scales better to massive multicore hardware.

An upgrade to encoding/json, featuring a new API.

Goroutine leak detection via garbage collection.