Christoph (Applied Go)

Go beyond the Go tutorials. Sending regular Go news here and at

[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

@MattJamesBoyle Finally! My favs: weak pointers and the tool dependency management.

[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

@salman_paracha @rakyll I am happy with Ollama. Probably because I don't even understand what "not being able to get token logprobs" means, and how it would affect my use of LLMs.

(Most of what's glaring and obvious for you as an AI specialist is beyond the average AI user... 🤷‍♂️)

[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

A quick announcement: Black Friday is nearing, and my course Master Go is $60 off until Dec 2nd. This is a great occasion to enter the world of a true team language that makes programming fun again. More info at https://t.co/YUuQIb7VKv.

[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

From building a system monitor to using conventions for readability: This Applied Go Weekly Newsletter issue is about practical Go.

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[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

Knowledge reduces dependencies.

The latest Applied Go Weekly Newsletter issue is about digging down to the roots.

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[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

- Making a CI/CD pipeline five times faster
- How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love PubSub
- I own my LLM chat history, and so should you

The latest Applied Go Weekly Newsletter is here!

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[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

Can you visualize your tests?

Would you rely on a GOAT on your next web app project?

Are the Swiss really famous for their... tables?

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[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

LLMs in programming: blessing or curse?

Also in this issue:
- Writing a circuit breaker in Go
- Reflecting on Go reflection
- Understanding sync_Map
- And more!

(This tweet brought to you by an LLM.)

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[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

Is Go procedural, object-oriented, functional, or all of it, or none?

The latest Applied Go Weekly Newsletter is here!

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[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

- Garbage-collected languages (Go, that is!) and real-time applications
- Register allocation in the Go compiler
- Go Singleflight Melts in Your Code, Not in Your DB
- Llama3.2 1B as a tiny code assistant on your local machine

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[modernc.org @modernc_org]

[ANN] tk9.0: The CGo-free, cross platform GUI toolkit for Go - https://t.co/qSRLxFFzPX

[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

Friends don't let friends write circular dependencies.

Also:
- Building LLM-powered applications in Go
- Ten Thousand Pixels
- The Go Developer Survey

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[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

Personal side projects can turn into toy apps... or full-blown, production-ready systems. Two examples popped up this week.

Plus:
- Database transactions
- Telemetry
- Testing

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[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

How would you call a Go channel whose elements are channels whose elements are channels whose elements are channels of int?

Over-engineered.

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[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

How much magic should a programming language contain?

Also:

- Go maps explained
- Range over function types
- Llama nuts and bolts

The latest Applied Go Weekly Newsletter is here!

https://t.co/SGiK02nkcM

#golang
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[Matt Boyle @MattJamesBoyle]

Just a reminder that I have a free course showing you all the new features in Go 1.23.

Check it out here: https://t.co/3U4JlvYdDx

[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

- Go 1.23: My favorite features
- How the testing harness works
- How to win frames and influence pointers
- Go structs are copied on assignment
- Five ways of using the switch statement

The latest Applied Go Weekly Newsletter is here!

https://t.co/9k2QWFmC0w

[Christoph (Applied Go) @AppliedGo]

Go 1.23 has been released yesterday. I have been collecting articles and docs and links from around the web and made a Go 1.23 "pillar page" from which you can dig into the new release as deep as you want!

#golang
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