Everything so far was the warm-up. Go concurrency is why the language exists and probably why you’re reading this series. And it starts with two letters: go. A goroutine is a function flying solo Put go in front of any call and that function runs concurrently, without blocking its launcher (A Tour of Go, goroutines): […]
READ MOREThe word pointer gives cold sweats to anyone who touched C in college, and puzzlement to anyone coming from Python or JS, where everything is a reference and nobody says so. Go pointers are the domesticated version: the power to choose, minus the arithmetic and the recreational segfaults. The mechanics: & and * Two operators, […]
READ MOREHeads up This series is written with the help of artificial intelligence (Claude), cross-checking every technical claim against the official Go documentation (go.dev) and citing the source for every relevant statement. Even so, it doesn’t replace your own judgment: compile it, test it, and be suspicious of any paragraph with no link behind it. Spot […]
READ MOREI asked my agent to generate the tests for a class with 12 methods. It took 40 seconds. I would’ve taken two hours, coffee breaks and all. That’s Copilot agent mode at full speed, once you let it run. That’s not magic. It’s a four-step process that loops until the task is done. Once you […]
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