Go programmers have the good fortune of excellent testing and benchmarking tooling built into the standard library - in the testing package. However, benchmarking is hard. This isn't Go specific; it's just one of those things experienced developers learn over time. This post list...
A major Go language change proposal was published earlier this week: add range over int, range over func, and there's a good chance this change will make it into a future Go release. In this post I will discuss the motivation for this proposal, how it's going to work, and …
Introduction When a CPU needs to access a piece of data, the data needs to travel into the processor from main memory. The architecture looks something like this: Figure 1: CPU Cache Figure 1 shows the different layers of memory a piece of data has to travel to be accessible by t...
Learn how to use the recently-added Tailscale, DNS, and Zeroconf endpoint discovery in Wishlist, our SSH host directory.
Ten years ago, I wrote Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh. Way back in 2013, it made it to the front page of Hacker News and got over 400 comments on /r/programming. I don’t have analytics from back then, but I suspect it’s one of my more discussed pieces of writing,...
Why we need coroutines for Go, and what they might look like.
Version v1.0.0 of golang.org/x/vuln has been released, introducing a new API and other improvements.
Write programs, not simulations of programs.