Imagine there’s a giant ZIP file on a HTTP server, and you want to know what’s inside it. You don’t know if it’s got what you are looking for, and you don’t want to download the whole thing.
unsafe is a Go package that, as the official documentation states, contains operations that step around the type safety of Go programs. As its name implies, it should be used very carefully; unsafe can be dangerous, but it can also be incredibly useful.
If you have ever tried Go, you probably know that writing services with Go is an easy thing. Yes, we really need only few lines to be able to run http service.
Introduction As a newcomer to gRPC (in Go) there are many resources setting out what gRPC is, where it originated from and how to create a basic service and client.
This article is about using lexmachine to tokenize strings (split up into component parts) in the Go (golang) programming language. If you find yourself processing a complex file format or network protocol this article will walk you through how to use lexmachine to process both a...
Yes, they are. And that’s why I love Go. Almost all important tools come together with Go installation, but there are also some you can install additionally depends on your needs: golint, errcheck, etc.
Go is widely used to implement microservices and APIs. And for those wishing to set up a dynamic website without resorting to, say, Ruby or PHP, Go offers a lot of tools out of the box.
What is ANTLR? ANTLR (ANother Tool for Language Recognition), is an ALL(*) parser generator. In layman’s terms, Antlr, creates parsers in a number of languages (Go, Java, C, C#, Javascript), that can process text or binary input.
Useful Programs I’ll start this post with a bold but fairly uncontroversial statement: Programs that do not interact with the outside world are useless - they do nothing except consume cycles.
In this post, I will tell a story of how I had to build a custom JSON unmarshaler for the needs of a GraphQL client library in Go.