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we walked through slices, maps, and channels, and how each of them is structured under the hood. Out of those three, channels are probably the most involved one in terms of how you actually use them — and there’s one language construct that really...
How cmd/go's script tests led me to testscript, and how to use it for CLI tests that exercise argv, stdout, stderr, exit codes, and scratch files.
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'Go Fuzzing Was Missing Half the Toolkit: We Forked the Toolchain to Fix It' — Go’s fuzzer lags the LibAFL-class tools Rust and C++ devs take for granted. Enter gosentry: a fork o...
Let’s add a provider abstraction to brighten up our Rust weather client’s
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txtar is a tiny plain-text archive format Russ Cox introduced in 2018 for multi-file test fixtures. The Go Playground, cmd/go's script tests, gopls's marker tests, and rsc.io/rf all reach for it.
The default slog API is loose enough that a careless line ships broken JSON to production. Pin it down with Attr constructors, LogAttrs, a context-borne logger, and sloglint.
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go including security fixes is now available for download.
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