A friend from work messaged me today that they had a hard time because they had used var c chan int instead of c := make(chan int) in their Go code. I responded by saying that I usually have one rule

A full attention mechanism and transformer in pure go. - takara-ai/go-attention

TL;DR ¶ Some of the wisdom contained in Josh Bloch’s Effective Java book is relevant to Go. panic and recover are best reserved for exceptional circumstances. Reliance on panic and recover can noticeably slow down execution, incurs heap allocations, and precludes…

I was helping someone get my gokrazy/rsync implementation set up to synchronize RPKI data (used for securing BGP routing infrastructure), when we discovered that with the right invocation, my rsync receiver would just hang indefinitely.
This was a quick problem…

Go 1.24 improves map performance with a brand new map implementation

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Online discussions about using Large Language Models to help write code inevitably produce comments from developers who’s experiences have been disappointing. They often ask what they’re doing wrong—how come some …

When you’ve got a slow Postgres query, EXPLAIN and its parameters are incredibly useful for working out why. However, the information returned can be difficult (and time-consuming) to interpret, especially for more complex queries. Over the years, people…

Embedded Go Database, the fast alternative to SQLite, gorm, etc. - objectbox/objectbox-go

Go HardWare discovery/inspection library. Contribute to jaypipes/ghw development by creating an account on GitHub.

RobotGo, Go Native cross-platform RPA and GUI automation @vcaesar - go-vgo/robotgo

Cursor and Claude is very effective when maintaining large projects. Learn how Stream CEO Thierry helps maintain our large Go codebase using AI.

Comparing database/sql, sqlx, GORM and sqlc.

Weak pointers and better finalization in Go 1.24.

Language choice is always a hot topic! We extensively evaluated many language options, both recently and in prior investigations. We also considered hybrid approaches where certain components could...

Embarking on a native port of the existing TypeScript compiler and toolset to achieve a 10x performance speed-up.

Keep your containers up-to-date! Contribute to getwud/wud development by creating an account on GitHub.