Awesome Go·2yA JavaScript developer tries Go for the first time
A JavaScript developer shares their first impressions of the Go programming language, highlighting its error handling, defer statement, explicit type conversion, switch statement, pointers, simple type system, and consistent approach to coding.
Awesome Go·2yGo is Not Java
This post discusses the misconception of posting 'Patterns in Go' articles by Java programmers and highlights that many of these patterns are considered anti-patterns. It explores the definition of Object Oriented programming and suggests that Go is more 'Object Oriented' than C++ or Java. The post also mentions the language that is most familiar with Object Oriented principles and criticizes the promotion of misinformation in articles about patterns in Go.
Awesome Go·2yConquering Errors in Go: A Guide to Returning and Handling errors
This post explores different approaches to error handling in Go, starting with the basic 'if err != nil' approach and moving on to wrapped errors, descriptive errors, and error sentinels. It also discusses the problems with each approach and provides examples of how to implement them in Go code.