Notes on the Go generics proposal

Update: The proposal draft has been revisited to use brackets instead of parenthesis. This article will be updated with the new syntax soon. Ian Lance Taylor and Robert Griesemer have been working on a generics proposal for Go for a while. Unlike other proposals, a highly signifi...

Lightweight Google Analytics alternatives

Discusses what Google Analytics tracks, and presents two lightweight alternatives: GoatCounter and Plausible (LWN.net).

When to avoid DRY in Go

In case you’re here for the first time, this post is the next in our Business Applications in Go series. Previously, we introduced Wild Workouts, our example application built in a modern way with some subtle anti-patterns. We added them on purpose to present common pitfall...

An intro to Go for non-Go developers

A brief introduction to Go for programmers who haven't used Go before: Why use it? The standard library. And the language itself.

Python and Go : Part I - gRPC

Series Index Python and Go: Part I - gRPC Python and Go: Part II - Extending Python With Go Python and Go: Part III - Packaging Python Code Python and Go: Part IV - Using Python in Memory Introduction Like tools, programming languages tend to solve problems they are designed to....

Recreational Programming with Serverless

Containers Under The Hood

Futures in Go, no package required

Futures are mechanisms for decoupling a value from how it was computed. Goroutines and channels allow implementing futures trivially. Does this approach cover all aspects of a future?

You should not build your own authentication

Welcome in the third and last article covering how to build “Too Modern Go application”. But don’t worry. It doesn’t mean that we are done with showing you how to build applications that are easy to develop, maintain, and fun to work with in the long term....

ZZT in Go (using a Pascal-to-Go converter)

Describes my port of Adrian Siekierka's "Reconstruction of ZZT" to Go, done in a semi-automated way using a Pascal-to-Go converter.