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Go introduced modules several years ago as part of a dependency management system. My Hugo site is still using git submodules to manage its theme. I attempted to migrate to Go's submodules but eventually ran into a snag when trying to deploy the site.
I ran into an odd UNIX filename issue while writing Go code the other day.
Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language. The goal of the project is to provide a simple, full featured debugging tool for Go.
Scoping in Go is built around the notion of code blocks. You can find several good explanations of how variable scoping work in Go on Google. I'd like to highlight one slightly unintuitive consequence of Go's block scoping if you're used to a language like Python, keeping in mind, this example does...
The use of context in Go can help you pass metadata through your program with helpful, related information about a call. Let's build an example where we set a context key, "stack", which keeps a history of the function names called over the lifetime of the context. As we pass the context object...
Go uses goroutines to execute multiple bits of code at the same time. Channels allow for the aggregation of the results of these concurrent calls after they have finished.
Say we need a map to store various versions of a configuration in Go. Here is a simple example of the structure:
Creating a Go module