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Unexpected Printf Behavior in Go WASM - Nothing Prints

Aug 10, 2020 by Lane Wagner

While working on boot.dev’s Go Playground, I came across a very strange error. The standard library’s fmt.

Authenticate Users with "Sign In With Google" in Golang

Jul 22, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Users love convenience. If your goal is to make it easy for users to register with your app or website, then implementing the “Sign in with Google” option should be at the top of your priority list.

Rust Backend vs Go Backend in Web Development

Jul 17, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Rust and Go are two of the industry’s biggest successes when it comes to developing modern programming languages.

Boot.dev Launches Golang Crash Course - Learn Go

Jul 02, 2020 by Lane Wagner

We just launched the new boot.dev computer science platform and can’t be more excited. Our first crash course in Go, “Learn Go” is now available!

Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM)

Jul 01, 2020 by Lane Wagner

If you are familiar with the Go Playground, then you know how convenient it is to be able to have a Go scratchpad in the browser.

Make Maps and Slices in Golang - A Guide to Initialization

Jun 29, 2020 by Lane Wagner

There are quite a few ways to create new maps and slices in Go, for example, they can both be initialized using the make() function, the new() function, as literals, or by using the var keyword.

Go-CoNLLU - Some Much Needed Machine Learning Support in Go

Jun 08, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Python is commonly seen as the AI/ML language, but is often a dull blade due to unsafe typing and being slow, like really slow.

Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll

Jun 04, 2020 by Lane Wagner

In applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency functions one after the other.

How to Sort a Slice in Go

May 27, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Sorting is a common task in programming, and for that reason, most languages have a default sorting algorithm in their standard library.

Don't Go To Casting Hell - Use Default Native Types in Go

May 21, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Go is strongly typed, and with that, we get many options for simple variable types like integers and floats.

Concurrency In Rust; Can It Stack Up Against Go's Goroutines?

May 11, 2020 by Lane Wagner

One of the primary goals of the Go programming language is to make concurrency simpler, faster, and more efficient.

Rust vs Go - Which Is More Popular?

May 06, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Go and Rust are two of the hottest compiled programming languages, but which is more popular, Go or Rust?

Range Over Ticker In Go With Immediate First Tick

Apr 30, 2020 by Lane Wagner

The Go standard library has a really cool type - Ticker. Tickers are used when you want to do something at a regular interval, similar to JavaScript’s setInterval.

Using 'Go Generate' To Deploy Multi-Process Apps

Apr 22, 2020 by Lane Wagner

In microservice architectures, it’s fairly common to have a project that includes different worker types. A Makefile can be used to manage the creation of multiple programs, but the Go toolchain has a tool that can be used as well, go generate.

What Are Golang's Anonymous Structs?

Apr 21, 2020 by Lane Wagner

An anonymous struct is just like a normal struct, but it is defined without a name and therefore cannot be referenced elsewhere in the code.

Announcing Go-TinyTime, Go-TinyDate's Sister Package

Apr 02, 2020 by Lane Wagner

time.Time is the perfect choice for handling times in Go in most cases, it even comes in the standard library!

Golang Conversions - Ints To Strings And Strong Typing

Mar 31, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Go is a strongly typed language, which means at any point a developer should know exactly what type of value they are dealing with.

How To Separate Library Packages in Go

Mar 29, 2020 by Lane Wagner

I’ve often seen, and have been responsible for, throwing code into packages without much thought. I’ve quickly drawn a line in the sand and started putting code into different folders (which in Go are different packages by definition) just for the sake of findability.

I Wrote Go-TinyDate, The Missing Golang Date Package

Mar 23, 2020 by Lane Wagner

time.Time makes dealing with dates and times in Go a breeze, and it even comes bundled in the standard library!

How to Use Mutexes in Go

Mar 19, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Golang is King when it comes to concurrency. No other language has so many tools right out of the box, and one of those tools is the standard library’s sync.

Best Practices for Interfaces in Go

Mar 15, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Interfaces in Go allow us to treat different types as the same data type temporarily because both types implement the same kind of behavior.

Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors

Mar 09, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Errors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky!

JWT Authentication in Golang

Feb 20, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Go is becoming very popular for backend web development, and JWT’s are one of the most popular ways to handle authentication on API requests.

BitBanged SPI in Go, An Explanation

Jan 09, 2020 by Lane Wagner

I’m going to focus mostly on some design decisions and also how I went about writing an SPI interface using Go on a Raspberry Pi.

Top 6 Golang Logging Best Practices

Jan 07, 2020 by Lane Wagner

Let’s discuss a few rules of thumb for logging in Go, as well as some features you may not have heard of that can make debugging easier.