What’s New in Go 1.24?
I was on episode 6 of the new Fallthrough podcast, talking about What’s New in Go 1.24. Check it out!
Making any integer with four 2s
There's a cute math puzzle that can be interesting to folks on very different levels: Given exactly four instances of the digit 2 and some target natural number, use any mathematical operations to generate the target number with these 2s, using no other digits. Some examples can...
Cup o' Go #100 - The strength of Go in the job market 📈, and some stress relief with Carlos Becker 🚀
Had an amazing chat with Jonathan and Shay about GoReleaser and other topics.
How to manage tool dependencies in Go 1.24+
One of my favourite features of Go 1.24 is the new functionality for managing developer tooling dependencies. By this, I mean tooling that you use to assist with development, testing, build, or deployment – such as staticcheck for static code analysis, govulncheck for vul...
svu v3
Back in 2017, I got tired of manually checking and creating git tags.
Testing concurrent code with testing/synctest
Go 1.24 contains an experimental package to aid in testing concurrent code.
Benchmarking utility for Python
Go programmers have it pretty good with the benchmarking capabilities provided by the standard library. Say we want to benchmark a dot product implementation: func dotProduct(a, b []float32) float32 { var dot float32 for i := range a { dot += a[i] * b[i] } return dot...
I'm on Fallthrough: Patching Problems with Persnickety Proxies Purveyed by Paternalistic Princes
Last week I was invited to join the wonderful Fallthrough podcast as a guest host, on a more time sensitive episode discussing the recent backdoor discovered in the Go module proxy, and the episode has just shipped, with a very good title! This was actually my second episode with...
Beyond the Debugger: A Comprehensive Guide to Debugging Go Applications
Not all bugs are created equal. Some may be easy to pinpoint and eliminate with the help of a debugger. Others might be subtle or infrequent, and tracking them down is like searching for a needle in a haystack. Choosing the right debugging technique can significantly raise the ch...
Go 1.24.0-1 Microsoft build now available
A new release of the Microsoft build of Go is now available for download. The post Go 1.24.0-1 Microsoft build now available appeared first on Microsoft for Go Developers.