/* Code Comments */11 posts tagged with "golang"
go pointers: asterisks and ampersand reference
2022-11-28
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Joseph Spurrier has a great gist about how to think about pointers in Golang. He’s also made it available in an interactive Go playground. I…
go: working with json - marshalling and unmarshaling
2022-11-28
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I was trying to understand more about how to actually use the package within Golang. Fortunately, Go By Example has a great set of…
goland: cannot resolve reference debugging
2022-11-28
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Every now and then GoLand seems to get in a borked state where none of the references in my Go project actually resolve. It’s annoying…
go: functions with multiple return types
2022-11-28
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https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/function-returning-multiple-values-in-go-language/
go @ plaid
2022-11-28
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slides Super summary: “Do cool things with boring code.” Not particularly innovative Not a super robust type system But there’s normally a…
go: api basics
2022-11-28
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To demonstrate a few basics of an HTTP server and API with Go, I’ll use the Star Wars API (swapi.dev). Useful packages: encoding/json…
go: module basics
2022-11-28
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Adding an module to your Go program requires registering it in the file. For the basics, see: Get started with Go. However, here’s a simple…
go: reading the manual
2022-11-28
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If you’re working in Golang and you want to understand how a function works you can access documentation locally via ’s CLI command: You…
throwing errors in golang
2022-11-28
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Imagine we’re counting the nucleotides in a given strand of DNA. If there’s an invalid nucleotide, we want to abort the process. How might…
using spy to watch for changes
2022-11-28
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Another entry in my Package Discovery series. Today, I’m looking at . Jaime Pillora wrote a nifty little application called Spy. Described…
getting the go tour running locally
2022-11-28
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In A Tour of Go, one of the options is to run the tour offline. The instructions seem simple enough: Install Go Run the command to fetch the…