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Go: Sometimes an ORM is a Bit Much

When you need it, an ORM is great, but sometimes the effort it requires to achieve its magic is painful. For example, if you have an…

Jul 5, 2022

Go: Sometimes an ORM is a Bit Much

Jul 5, 2022

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Go Panic and Recovery: Meet the Edge Case

Idiomatic Go generally handles error cases with the pattern:

Jul 3, 2022

Go Panic and Recovery: Meet the Edge Case

Jul 3, 2022

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Go Generics: Adopting a Couple of Known Patterns

As I’ve worked more and wore with Go generics pursuing cleaner code I’ve tested known patterns from other sources to see how they would…

Jun 28, 2022

Go Generics: Adopting a Couple of Known Patterns

Jun 28, 2022

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Working Around a Limitation of Go Generics

Go has always had some challenges regarding polymorphism. Its type system and naming rules just made some things difficult. For example…

Jun 20, 2022

Working Around a Limitation of Go Generics

Jun 20, 2022

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A Couple of Interesting Go Syntax Nuances

I’m a bit jaded with regards to programming languages, so I enjoy finding interesting nuances in them. Here a couple from Go.

Jun 14, 2022

A Couple of Interesting Go Syntax Nuances

Jun 14, 2022

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Go Generics and Polymorphism, an Idiomatic Wake-up Call

I’ve always felt that the WET nature of Go led to a lot of subpar code. One area this really stands out is polymorphism. Go supports…

May 22, 2022

Go Generics and Polymorphism, an Idiomatic Wake-up Call

May 22, 2022

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Go: When To Adopt 1.18 and Generics

I've been eagerly awaiting generics in Go, so I’ve been working with 1.18 since it was only available in the playground and betas. It’s…

May 14, 2022

Go: When To Adopt 1.18 and Generics

May 14, 2022

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Go: Function Names and Generics

With Go, you immediately learn that function signatures don’t include type information. So, unlike many languages, you can’t have:

Apr 29, 2022

Go: Function Names and Generics

Apr 29, 2022

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API Pagination

API results pagination is a bit of a trigger issue for me. It’s such an easy concept to conceptualize but is literally an exercise in edge…

Feb 22, 2022

API Pagination

Feb 22, 2022

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Go Generics: Holistic Thoughts on Performance

There have been lots of discussions on the performance implications of generics in Go, around both specific scenarios and abstractly, let’s…

Jan 23, 2022

Go Generics: Holistic Thoughts on Performance

Jan 23, 2022

nwillc

nwillc

Graybeard code monkey, started on an Apple IIe, got a CS degree in the 80’s, and coded my way through C, C++, Objective-C, Java, Kotlin — and now Go.

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