Why Discord is switching from Go to Rust

Rust is becoming a first class language in a variety of domains. At Discord, we’ve seen success with Rust on the client side and server side.

https://blog.discord.com/why-discord-is-switching-from-go-to-rust-a190bbca2b1f

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#rust #discord #golang

5 simple tips and tricks for writing unit tests in golang

Test-driven development is a great way to keep the quality of your code high...

https://medium.com/@matryer/5-simple-tips-and-tricks-for-writing-unit-tests-in-golang

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#golang #testing #codequality

Running Go code from Python

Python is a great, clean language, despite its speed. You can speed it up making go bindings.

https://medium.com/analytics-vidhya/running-go-code-from-python-a65b3ae34a2d

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#golang #python #cdll

Go statement considered harmful

Every concurrency API needs a way to run code concurrently. There are lots of variations but the semantics are the same.

https://vorpus.org/blog/notes-on-structured-concurrency-or-go-statement-considered-harmful/

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#golang

How To Perform Remote Procedure Calls With Go

REST APIs have long been dominating the development world, but there is a new player in town...

https://betterprogramming.pub/how-to-perform-remote-procedure-calls-with-go

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#golang #grpc #api

How can the Fiber Web Framework be useful?

Fiber, as a web framework, was created with the idea of minimalism and follows the UNIX way...

https://dev.to/koddr/go-fiber-by-examples-how-can-the-fiber-web-framework-be-useful

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#fiber #golang #restapi

Writing unit tests in Golang

Unit testing is a way of writing tests for the individual components (aka, the smallest part) of a program...

https://medium.com/nerd-for-tech/writing-unit-tests-in-golang-part-1-introducing-testify

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#golang #testing #devops

5chan - How to write a 4chan clone in Go and NextJS

4chan is a simple image-based bulletin board where anyone can post comments and share images...

https://dev.to/100lvlmaster/5chan-the-4chan-clone-1n7p

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#tutorial #golang #nextjs

Go'ing insane part one: Endless error handling

What happens when you mix error values, an inability to shadow variable declarations, and a lack of an error-specific control flow mechanism?

https://jesseduffield.com/Gos-Shortcomings-1/

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#golang #errors #misc

3 Things Go Needs Right Now More Than Generics

My suggestions to make Go an even better language.

https://betterprogramming.pub/three-things-go-needs-right-now-more-than-generics

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#golang #go

Build Your Own Container Using Less than 100 Lines of Go

https://www.infoq.com/articles/build-a-container-golang

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#misc #golang #docker

Implementing factory pattern GO

In GO, there isn’t such thing as the Constructor, instead, you initialize a struct directly by providing a value for each one of its fields...

https://medium.com/@ovargas/implementing-factory-pattern-go

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#golang #tutorial #go

Reading the web offline and distraction-free

This article describes the wiring of a tool to turn a webpage into a self-sufficient epub (for reading offline).

https://blog.owulveryck.info/2021/10/07/reading-from-the-web-offline-and-distraction-free.html

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#golang #epub

sync: ExampleWaitGroup includes a porn website url · Issue #48886

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/48886

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#golang #meme #github

Use Go Channels as Promises and Async/Await

If you’ve ever programmed with Javascript, you definitely know about Promise and async/await. But what about Golang?

https://levelup.gitconnected.com/use-go-channels-as-promises-and-async-await-ee62d93078ec

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#golang #async #learn

You don't like Golang because you are too small

https://tmikov.blogspot.com/2015/02/you-dont-like-googles-go-because-you.html?m=1

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#golang #rant #google

Rust vs Go… obvious choice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4O-lXoI2opA

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#golang #rust #satire

Saving a third of our memory by re-ordering Go struct fields

https://wagslane.dev/posts/go-struct-ordering

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#golang #memory #optimization