No starch press released a book called “Black Hat Go” at the beginning of the month. The cover of that book features a gopher in a burglar outfit, which I really liked (and I believe others do too). I sent an email...

Hello everyone, I am trying to create a Python extension written in Go using gopy. For this I copied an example from the gopy github https://github.com/go-python/gopy/blob/master/_examples/simple/simple.go): // Copyright 2015...

First, let me get things straight. I’ve been programming Go long enough to understand why people would pass a pointer as an argument to a function, versus passing, say a struct. Passing by value it is. What I don’t...

From many I have read suggested to use `http.Handler` over `http.HandlerFunc` because `http.Handler` takes an interface and more flexible — eg. using different mux. But, I still can’t picture it well: http.Handler is...

Hey all, first time posting to r/golang. Mind if I propose a library I just created? It wraps primitive data types to allow for nil values. https://github.com/crunk1/go-sak/tree/master/nilable Other libs? I’ve looked...

To play, connect via SSH to netris.rocketnine.space: ssh netris.rocketnine.space netris is a competitive terminal-based Tetris clone. Three public lobbies are available, or you may create a custom lobby and limit players’...

I’ve been lucky enough in my company to have a complete freedom in creating my ideal tech stack and the road leading to it. Hence the question – which tech you reckon would be ideal to take a look at? Currently...

Hi all, I am looking for your feedback. I wrote a small static file web server in golang that optimizes static files on the fly for faster delivery. Features – Automatic js and css minification – Automatic image...

Hi, I’m a little bit confused. Suppose, I want to build a Todo app. So the main domain model here is the Todo. Should I define the complete Todo inside protobuf? Or should I define only request and responses then define...

hi, if I have type like the following type SomeType string Is there anyway to know through reflection that SomeType can be treated as string during serialization? Or is there any way to know through reflection that SomeType can...