Deep-Dive · · 26 min

Hooking into the Go Toolchain

Note This post was originally published on Internals for Interns on 2026-10-05, as a guest post in Jesús Espino’s series on Go internals. This is a mirror on my personal blog. If you want to share it, please link the original post. Today we’re going to take a look at the Go toolchain, and more specifically at how we can take part in the compilation process with our own code. We won’t patch the compiler. We’ll stand right next to it while it works, watch what it does, and every now and then hand it something it didn’t ask for. Think of it as photobombing the compiler, politely. 📸 ...

October 1, 2026 · 26 min · 5479 words · Kemal Akkoyun