YouTube·6wStop Watching Tutorials. Do This Instead
Advice for beginners on how to learn programming effectively. Key points: pick one learning path and stick with it, use free resources like YouTube, freeCodeCamp, or CS50, choose VS Code as your IDE, and avoid relying on AI tools until you understand the basics. Also briefly promotes Orchids 1.0, an AI app builder that supports multiple project types and lets you bring your own API keys.
YouTube·5wGo FINALLY Fixed Its Dumbest Syntax Problem
Go 1.26 enhances the built-in `new` function to accept expressions in addition to types, allowing developers to take the address of a value directly without needing a temporary variable or a generic helper function. Previously, passing a literal value as a pointer required either storing it in a throwaway variable or writing a utility function (a pattern common in codebases like the AWS SDK). With this change, `new(0.15)` works directly, eliminating boilerplate for structs with optional pointer fields.
YouTube·7wGo 1.26's Small But Clever New Function Change!
Go 1.26 enhances the built-in `new` function to accept an initializer expression, allowing memory allocation and value assignment in a single step. Previously, developers had to allocate with `new(T)` and then dereference the pointer to assign a value, often requiring temporary variables. With Go 1.26, `new(42)` allocates an integer pointer initialized to 42 directly. This is particularly useful when working with pointer fields in structs for optional JSON/protobuf fields, partial API updates (PATCH semantics), and table-driven tests, where temporary helper variables were previously needed just to obtain a pointer to a literal value.
YouTube·7wShould you learn Go in 2026?
A Go developer and former Twitch senior engineer makes the case for learning Go in 2026 despite AI disruption and tech layoffs. Key arguments include Go's dominance in cloud-native tooling (Kubernetes, Docker), its suitability for microservices, its simplicity making it AI-friendly for code generation, its robust standard library, and strong job market demand with competitive salaries. The GitHub 2025 developer survey is cited showing Go among the most admired and desired languages.
YouTube·5wLinus Torvalds On Rust In Linux #shorts #linux #rust #knowledge #programmer
Linus Torvalds shares his personal take on Rust in the Linux kernel. While he remains a C person at heart, he acknowledges that Rust hasn't done anything obnoxious enough to make him actively dislike it — a lukewarm but notable acceptance from the Linux creator.