Golang - Pg. 3
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Rust Backend vs Go Backend in Web Development
Jul 17, 2020 by Lane WagnerRust and Go are two of the industry’s biggest successes when it comes to developing modern programming languages.
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Boot.dev Launches Golang Crash Course - Learn Go
Jul 02, 2020 by Lane WagnerWe 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!
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Running Go in the Browser With Web Assembly (WASM)
Jul 01, 2020 by Lane WagnerIf 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.
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Make Maps and Slices in Golang - A Guide to Initialization
Jun 29, 2020 by Lane WagnerThere 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.
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Go-CoNLLU - Some Much Needed Machine Learning Support in Go
Jun 08, 2020 by Lane WagnerPython is commonly seen as the AI/ML language, but is often a dull blade due to unsafe typing and being slow, like really slow.
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Go's WaitGroup vs JavaScript's PromiseAll
Jun 04, 2020 by Lane WagnerIn applications that are i/o heavy, it can get clunky to synchronously execute high-latency functions one after the other.
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How to Sort a Slice in Go
May 27, 2020 by Lane WagnerSorting is a common task in programming, and for that reason, most languages have a default sorting algorithm in their standard library.
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Don't Go To Casting Hell - Use Default Native Types in Go
May 21, 2020 by Lane WagnerGo is strongly typed, and with that, we get many options for simple variable types like integers and floats.
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Concurrency In Rust; Can It Stack Up Against Go's Goroutines?
May 11, 2020 by Lane WagnerOne of the primary goals of the Go programming language is to make concurrency simpler, faster, and more efficient.
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Rust vs Go - Which Is More Popular?
May 06, 2020 by Lane WagnerGo and Rust are two of the hottest compiled programming languages, but which is more popular, Go or Rust?
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Range Over Ticker In Go With Immediate First Tick
Apr 30, 2020 by Lane WagnerThe 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.
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Using 'Go Generate' To Deploy Multi-Process Apps
Apr 22, 2020 by Lane WagnerIn 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.
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What Are Golang's Anonymous Structs?
Apr 21, 2020 by Lane WagnerAn anonymous struct is just like a normal struct, but it is defined without a name and therefore cannot be referenced elsewhere in the code.
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Announcing Go-TinyTime, Go-TinyDate's Sister Package
Apr 02, 2020 by Lane Wagnertime.Time is the perfect choice for handling times in Go in most cases, it even comes in the standard library!
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Golang Conversions - Ints To Strings And Strong Typing
Mar 31, 2020 by Lane WagnerGo is a strongly typed language, which means at any point a developer should know exactly what type of value they are dealing with.
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How To Separate Library Packages in Go
Mar 29, 2020 by Lane WagnerI’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.
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I Wrote Go-TinyDate, The Missing Golang Date Package
Mar 23, 2020 by Lane Wagnertime.Time makes dealing with dates and times in Go a breeze, and it even comes bundled in the standard library!
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How to Use Mutexes in Go
Mar 19, 2020 by Lane WagnerGolang 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.
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Best Practices for Interfaces in Go
Mar 15, 2020 by Lane WagnerInterfaces in Go allow us to treat different types as the same data type temporarily because both types implement the same kind of behavior.
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Wrapping Errors in Go - How to Handle Nested Errors
Mar 09, 2020 by Lane WagnerErrors in Go are a hot topic. Many newcomers to the language immediately level their first criticism, “errors in go are clunky!
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JWT Authentication in Golang
Feb 20, 2020 by Lane WagnerGo is becoming very popular for backend web development, and JWT’s are one of the most popular ways to handle authentication on API requests.
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BitBanged SPI in Go, An Explanation
Jan 09, 2020 by Lane WagnerI’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.
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Top 6 Golang Logging Best Practices
Jan 07, 2020 by Lane WagnerLet’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.
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How to Create Constant Maps, Slices, & Arrays in Golang
Oct 21, 2019 by Lane WagnerThe quick answer is that Go does not support constant arrays, maps or slices. However, there are some great workarounds.
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The Proper Use of Pointers in Go (Golang)
Sep 25, 2019 by Lane WagnerGo has become increasingly popular in recent years, especially in my local area. It has been consistently displacing other backend languages like Ruby, Python, C# and Java.