Ten years ago, I wrote Go: The Good, the Bad, and the Meh. Way back in 2013, it made it to the front page of Hacker News and got over 400 comments on /r/programming. I don’t have analytics from back then, but I suspect it’s one of my more discussed pieces of writing,...
Why we need coroutines for Go, and what they might look like.
Version v1.0.0 of golang.org/x/vuln has been released, introducing a new API and other improvements.
Write programs, not simulations of programs.
Since starting the project in February, I've been having a great time working on dependency-management-data, a project to make it easier to understand how internal and Open Source dependencies are used in your projects. We've been using it a fair bit at Deliveroo and it's helped...
It won't be news to the readers of this blog that I have some interest in compiler front-ends. So when I heard about a new(-ish) DSL for concrete syntax trees (CST), I couldn't resist playing with it a bit. Ungrammar is used in rust-analyzer to define and access a …
In the thrilling conclusion to our fuzz testing series, we’ll use Go’s fuzzer to find a real bug in our code, and also to verify the fix.
In the thrilling conclusion to our fuzz testing series, we’ll use Go’s fuzzer to find a real bug in our code, and also to verify the fix.
I've recently been writing some HTTP server code with Go, and found it not-super-searchable to find out how to have a struct that shares state between method calls, so I thought it'd be good to blogument it. For a super contrived example, we want to share the state along our serv...