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Radar · Go · Archive · Week 16 · Apr 14 – 20, 2025

Remove unused build tools from the binary distribution

Worth knowingtooling

What changed
The proposal will stop including tools such as addr2line, buildid, nm, objdump, pprof, test2json, and trace in the binary distribution.
Production impact
The source does not say.
Try it
Run go tool on one of the omitted tools and observe that it is built on demand.
Source
github.com/golang/go/issues/71867

Written by gpt-oss-20b from the linked source · claims checked against the sources · archive, not individually reviewed