Go's new Iterators were released on August 13th with Go 1.23.
They've had just a minute to marinate. In some parts of the community they're unpopular. I don't particularly mind them. The old alternatives seem a little more "Go" to me, but the new iterators are largely fine.
I am mildly disappoin…
Go has a problem. Go modules place a strange naming requirement on modules version 2 or greater. Module names on modules v2+ must end in the major version ala …/v2, and communication of this rule has been weak. It's non-obvious, and the community at large does not understand it.
I have seen many ve…
In that same time range I had a handful of Apps purchased from the App store suddenly and mysteriously stop working. They just quit. No dialog, no error mesasage, nothing at all. Apps I paid for and depend on just stopped working.
The thing they all these Apps have in common is they are no longer a…
There's been a fair deal of hubbub in the community about version numbers, including what is and isn't Semantic Versioning, what qualifies as a breaking change and how to use version numbers.
Underscore.js released a second digit "minor update" that was actually a breaking update for some people. T…
Note: This is not intended as a "Go Sucks" post. I love Go. I am not saying the developers are lazy or dumb or any of the things Reddit has implied. I am not implying I could build a better compiler. Rob Pike and the Go team are geniuses whom I look up to. The tone of this was intended to be a light…
CoffeeScript, for those not in the know, is a programming language that compiles to JavaScript. Its mission is to "expose the good parts of JavaScript in a simple way". I've heard a lot of interest in it lately from various channels, and our deployment bot at work is written in it. I started toying…
In my professional work, we have a system that utilizes __call and __callStatic for caching of certain method calls. We have been running into a problem where calling an undefined method via :: within the class itself will trigger __call rather than the expected __callStatic.
The Problem
The follo…
Googles Page Speed “Optimizations” Make Learning Difficult
If you, as I, grew up during the web bubble we call the 90’s and were interested at all in web development my guess is that you probably didn’t learn most of your skills from a book or a class. You probably would run across a site that ha…
