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…
I have been playing with WebAssembly since Go added support for it in 2017.
For a very long time now, I've been wanting to be able to accept files from an end user and process them with Go on their local machine. Basically I just want to read files from file inputs. I knew it had to be possible, b…
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…
Go currently lacks any sort of heredoc or similar syntax, and it's backtick syntax cannot contain backticks. This can make correctly encoded creating go strings, particularly for large strings that contain many backticks, a bit of a challenge.
Here's a tool to safely encode any given input to Go st…
In 2013 I wrote an unintentionally inflammatory post: Go Binary Sizes Are Growing out of Control. I had imagined no one would read it, but it took off. I wrote it because I noticed my binaries getting larger as I upgraded versions of Go and found it curious.
Much has changed since then; biggest of…
To prevent developers from pulling down potentially unsafe packages, we now retire the namespace of any open source project that had more than 100 clones in the week leading up to the owner’s account being renamed or deleted.
This is a decent half step but I'd still love to see either permalinks o…
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…
