In GNU Emacs, I should remember that the basics still work
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Lifecycle management in Go tests
Unlike pytest or JUnit, Go’s standard testing framework doesn’t give you as many knobs for tuning the lifecycle of your tests. By lifecycle I mean the usual setup and teardown hooks or fixtures that are common in other languages. I think this is a good thing because y...
Elephants for breakfast
How do you test functions that can’t be tested? That’s easy: you don’t! Instead, you use the magic function technique to break down the elephants—excuse me, functions—into smaller bites that you can test.
You can only customize GNU Emacs so far due to primitives
Implementing Forth in Go and C
I first ran into Forth about 20 years ago when reading a book about designing embedded hardware. The reason I got the book back then was to actually learn more about the HW aspects, so having skimmed the Forth chapter I just registered an "oh, this is neat" mental note...
Go experiments with SIMD
#567 — August 27, 2025 Read the Web Version Go Weekly Container-Aware GOMAXPROCS — The official Go blog kicks off a promised series of posts on Go 1.25’s new features with a look at some tweaked container-aware behavior around GOM...
Garbage Collection In Go : Part III - GC Pacing
Although first introduced in 2014, the Context package remains a crucial component of Go programming, enabling efficient management of request-scoped data, deadlines, and cancellation signals. As the Go ecosystem continues to evolve, understanding the Context package’s sema...
Testing Time (and other asynchronicities)
A discussion of testing asyncronous code and an exploration of the `testing/synctest` package. Based on the GopherCon Europe 2025 talk with the same title.
The one with the big Go 1.25 release
#566 — August 20, 2025 Read the Web Version ☀️ We're back from a week off – the previous issue is here if you want to check it out again – and we should now be back every week until October at least :-)__Peter Cooper, your editor Go Wee...