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Looks like an issue to me, too.

I think it would be worth adding additional context rather than completely removing. I happened to be working through this example with go1.19.5 which seems to not init() the rand function, and as such had some mild confusion when my code matched but the output did not (fixed by adding a seed the example code did not have).

Installing 1.20.5 seems to have solved the seed issue, but I think for newer users it may be nice to have this section call out the change of functionality from version X to version X and that older versions require manual init seeding.

CC @ansaba

Can anything be done about this? Every single developer who starts learning Go from the official website has had a frustrating experience right from the start for the last months, because the tutorial is broken. Every week someone creates a new issue.

Change https://go.dev/cl/518475 mentions this issue: _content/doc/tutorial: remove outdated paragraph about seeding the rand package

I think this was fixed by https://go.dev/cl/507096. Sorry for the delay.

I would like to echo @jexlock's sentiment. I started going through the tutorial on a Linux Mint machine, and the Go version I get from sudo apt install golang is 1.18.1. It would be helpful to at least have a note that this requires 1.20, or that users below 1.20 may need to add additional code to get the example to work. Removing any mention of init entirely just makes the subsequent un-seeded behavior even more mysterious.

Why there is no version control for the tutorial?

Change https://go.dev/cl/557795 mentions this issue: _content/doc/tutorial: add version prerequisite