#golang

Learn Go Series (#12) - Packages, Modules, and Project Layout What will I learn What a package is, and how a name's capitalization decides whether it is exported or private; What a module is, what go.mod

Learn Go Series (#11) - Error Handling the Go Way What will I learn Why Go has no exceptions, and treats errors as ordinary values you return and check; Creating errors with errors.New and fmt.Errorf,

Learn Go Series (#10) - Pointers, Memory, and Escape Analysis What will I learn What a pointer is, and what & (address-of) and * (dereference) actually do; How passing a pointer lets a function mutate

Learn Go Series (#9) - Interfaces and Implicit Satisfaction What will I learn What an interface is in Go -- a set of method signatures -- and how a type satisfies one implicitly, with no implements keyword;

Learn Go Series (#8) - Structs, Methods, and Receivers What will I learn How to define a struct, Go's way of bundling related data, and how to build and print one; How to attach methods to your types with

Learn Go Series (#7) - Strings, Runes, and Unicode What will I learn What a Go string really is -- an immutable, read-only slice of bytes holding UTF-8; Why len(s) counts bytes, indexing gives you a byte,

Learn Go Series (#6) - Maps and Sets What will I learn How to create, read, write and grow a map, Go's built-in hash table; The comma-ok idiom that tells "present but zero" apart from

Learn Go Series (#5) - Arrays, Slices, and Slice Internals What will I learn The difference between an array (fixed size, a value) and a slice (a growable view), and why you almost always use slices; What

Learn Go Series (#4) - Control Flow: if, switch, and the Only Loop What will I learn The if statement and its handy init clause that scopes a variable to the branch; Go's single loop keyword for in all

Learn Go Series (#3) - Functions and First-Class Functions What will I learn How Go functions return multiple values, and why that is the language's answer to exceptions; The comma-ok idiom, the little

Learn Go Series (#2) - Variables, Types, Constants, and iota What will I learn The two ways to declare variables (var and :=), when each reads best, and what Go's zero value guarantee buys you; Multiple

Learn Go Series (#1) - Introduction to Go What will I learn What Go is, who built it and why, and the specific kind of pain it was designed to remove; Why Go deliberately has fewer features than the languages

I have been working on a small project called Hoverfly, and it is finally at the point where I am comfortable showing it to other Hive developers. The short version is this: Hoverfly is a single-binary

Hey everyone, The work to modernize Hive developer tooling is continuing. Pollen gives JavaScript and TypeScript developers a modern path forward. You can read that announcement here and we have continued

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Bringing a more complete Hive library to the Go programming language, with all the most common operations supported!

Hey everyone, It’s been a busy few weeks over here, even if my posting schedule says otherwise. If you follow along with my random updates, you know I’ve been spending a lot of time lately trying to really

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Hey everyone, I previously shared my Python tweaks for the SXM HLS Proxy. Naturally, I couldn't leave well enough alone. I spent the last week porting the HLS Proxy to Golang. The result is cleaner, highly