Programming with confidence: TDD in Go

There’s an easy, pleasant, and reliable way to build software in Go, guided by tests. Let’s find out what it’s like to program with confidence, in the first part of this TDD tutorial series.

No-one likes a leaky goroutine

#​501 — March 26, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly Learning Go in 2024; From Beginner to Senior — Go learning resources are plentiful and cover the gamut of media from text, to video, to podcasts, and all skill levels from begi...

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When I reimplement one of my programs, I often wind up polishing it too

Flight recording for Go apps

#​500 — March 19, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly More Powerful Go Execution Traces — Over the last two releases, the Go team has worked to fix and enhance execution tracing, resulting in a 10x drop in overhead and much more s...

More powerful Go execution traces

New features and improvements to execution traces from the last year.

For Loops and More in Go

Introduction Looping seems like a basic topic: Write a for loop with a termination condition, and you’re done. However there’s a lot of ways you can write a for loop in Go. Knowing more about the different versions of for will help you choose the best option to accomp...

Are single letter variables that bad?

#​499 — March 12, 2024 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly High-Speed Packet Transmission in Go: From net.Dial to AF_XDP — How can you send as many packets per second as possible from a Linux machine using Go? Andree wanted to find ou...

Type parameters in Go

Now that generics have come to Go, let's take a look at the new syntax for type parameters. We’ll find out why we need type parameters, how we write them, and how we can use them to create generic functions in Go.

Generics in Go

Generics what now? This friendly, down-to-earth tutorial series explains how Go’s generic functions and types work, why we need them, and where we can use them.