Three flavors of sorting Go slices

There are primarily three ways of sorting slices in Go. Early on, we had the verbose but flexible method of implementing sort.Interface to sort the elements in a slice. Later, Go 1.8 introduced sort.Slice to reduce boilerplate with inline comparison functions. Most recently, Go 1...

Three flavors of sorting Go slices

Compare three Go slice sorting methods: sort.Interface, sort.Slice with closures, and modern generic slices.Sort with type safety.

Go's choice of multiple return values was the simpler option

Go's multiple return values and (Go) types

When you shouldn’t use frameworks in Go

Quick takeaways Frameworks promise productivity but often lead to issues as projects get larger and more complex. The Go community prefers small, focused libraries over frameworks due to Go’s design philosophy influenced by Unix principles. Watch out for risks using framew...

Forget TypeScript, how about porting Doom to Go?

#​546 — March 19, 2025 Unsub  |  Web Version Go Weekly Traversal-Resistant File APIs — Among the lesser known new features in recent versions of Go are some ways to improve file system security when end user input might have an i...

Custom YAML marshal/unmarshal with Go

string and []string can be the same thing…

I don't think error handling is a solved problem in language design

Catching grace: don’t just do something, sit there

Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.

Announcing GoReleaser v2.8

Happy March! Another release is here with several improvements across the board.