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.
Community Picks·2yThe BEST Tool to Structure Golang Projects
The post discusses the topic of Go project structure and project layout. It mentions that there isn't a clear guide on how to structure Golang projects and introduces the go blueprint project as a solution. Go blueprint is a CLI tool that helps users spin up a Go project with a corresponding structure seamlessly.
Community Picks·2ygopherjs/gopherjs: A compiler from Go to JavaScript for running Go code in a browser
GopherJS is a Go to JavaScript compiler that allows writing front-end code in Go to run in all browsers. It has support for various Go versions and provides bindings to JavaScript APIs and libraries. GopherJS can be installed using 'go install' command.
Hacker News·2yroblillack/spot: React-like desktop GUI toolkit for Go
Spot is a simple, cross-platform, reactive GUI toolkit for Go using native widgets where available. It provides easy-to-use UI controls, automatic UI updates based on application state changes, and support for creating custom components.
Community Picks·2yCreate plugins in Go
Learn how to create plugins in Go using the standard library. Enable third-party development, extensibility, and customization. Create a main package with public functions and/or variables. Build the plugin with the buildmode flag. Load and use the plugin in the main application.
codeHeim·2y#37 Golang - Mastering Background Jobs in Go with gocraft/work
Learn how to handle background jobs in Go using the gocraft/work package. Discover why background jobs are needed, how they differ from Go's built-in concurrency, and how background job systems persist the state of jobs. Explore advanced topics like using context and middleware, as well as the user interface for job status and the check-in feature for long-running jobs.
Community Picks·2yGo or Rust? Just Listen to the Bots
The post describes the journey of building conversational bots with voices using Go and Rust. The author shares their inspiration for the project, discusses the design implementation details, and provides code snippets for both the Go and Rust implementations.
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.
Lobsters·2ymicrosoft/go: The Microsoft build of the Go toolset
microsoft/go is a repository containing the infrastructure Microsoft uses to build Go. It produces a modified version of Go that can be used to build FIPS 140-2 compliant applications. The binaries produced are intended for general use within Microsoft. The repository follows the upstream Go Release Policy and supports each major release until there are two newer major releases.
codeHeim·2y#36 Golang - Mastering JWT Authentication
Learn how to implement JWT authentication in a Go application using Golang, Gin Gonic, and Gorm. Discover how JWT tokens can be used to securely transmit information between parties in authentication. Restrict access to web pages using JWT authentication.
Go·2ySecure Randomness in Go 1.22
Go 1.22 improves the security of programs by using the ChaCha8Rand generator for random numbers. The previous Go 1 generator had predictable outputs and could lead to serious security issues. ChaCha8Rand provides better randomness and is more suitable for generating random numbers. It is used in math/rand/v2 package, as well as in the math/rand and runtime packages of the Go standard library. The performance of ChaCha8Rand is comparable to the Go 1 generator and PCG generator.
ThePrimeTime·2yGo Kind Of Sucks
Go has several criticisms, including verbosity, poor interoperability with other code, poor garbage collection performance with certain types of heaps, and difficulty in managing go routine lifetimes. However, it also has strengths like lightweight threads and error handling with 'panic'. Overall, Go is a language with pros and cons, like any other programming language.
