#492 — January 23, 2024 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Rust vs Go in 2024? — A perennially popular post from yesteryear has been tweaked for 2024 (though the pros and cons remain quite similar) with a comparison of the ‘both aw...
As of now, unlike Python or NodeJS, Go doesn’t allow you to specify your development dependencies separately from those of the application. However, I like to specify the dev dependencies explicitly for better reproducibility. While working on a new CLI tool1 for checking d...
As of now, unlike Python or NodeJS, Go doesn’t allow you to specify your development dependencies separately from those of the application. However, I like to specify the dev dependencies explicitly for better reproducibility. While working on a new CLI tool1 for checking d...
For a little while, I’ve been considering the potential impact of generative Artificial Intelligence on various areas of our lives, more recently I’ve had very interesting conversations about applying AI to help the creations of manga/animé. This blurb was writing to...
Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
Not technical writing, but Jim Lawless interviewed me on his "Stray Pointers" podcast. We discuss Forth, C, CGI, Python, Go, and AWK.
#491 — January 16, 2024 Unsub | Web Version Go Weekly Initial Thoughts on Go 1.22 — 1.22 is due next month, but the release candidate gives us a look at plenty of changes and improvements coming down the pike, including new defa...
I recently rolled out go-semantic-release on dependency-management-data (DMD) to make managing the changelog a little easier, by taking Conventional Commits and converting them to a much nicer changelog. While dependency-management-data is actively used in production by several o...
I have always appreciated the Go Team investing time on providing the community with the Go Tour. This website is designed to help developers get started in learning the Go programming language. The nice part of the website is that it provides an interactive environment where one...