Fun With Flags
In a previous article we discussed why command line applications are important and talked about few guidelines. In this article we’ll see how we can use the built-in flag package to write command line applications.
Internets of Interest #15: The Queen of the Skies
If, like me, you’re a commercial aviation otaku, this walkthrough of an enthusiast built 747 cockpit simulator should be highly relevant to your interests.
Introduction to Gate
Safe use of unsafe.Pointer
Package unsafe provides an escape hatch from Go’s type system, enabling interactions with low-level and system call APIs, in a manner similar to C programs.
Complementary engineering indicators
Last year I had the opportunity to watch Cat Swetel’s presentation The Development Metrics You Should Use (but Don’t). The information that could be gleaned from just tracking the start and finish date of work items was eye opening. If you’re using an issue tracker...
Contribute Beyond Code: Open Source for Everyone
Developers are often encouraged to contribute to open source. If you don’t consider yourself a developer, it can feel daunting to start on the journey to contributing.
Directional Channels in Go
Go’s channels provide a primitive for typed, synchronous message passing. Combined with goroutines, they form the backbone of Go’s CSP-inspired concurrency model. They’re simple and expressive, but they can be difficult to use properly, especially if you need to...
Writing Friendly Command Line Applications
Let me tell you a story… In 1986 Knuth wrote a program to demonstrate literate programming. The task was to read a file of text, determine the n most frequently used words, and print out a sorted list of those words along with their frequencies.
Modules Part 02: Projects, Dependencies and Gopls
Series Index Why and What Projects, Dependencies and Gopls Minimal Version Selection Mirrors, Checksums and Athens Gopls Improvements Vendoring Introduction Modules is the system integrated into Go to provide support for dependency management. This means modules touch just about...
Go Advent Introduction
Our tradition at Gopher Academy is to host an Advent Calendar of blog posts contributed by the community each December. I’m excited to kick off the 2019 series with this introduction!