Go by Example

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@ahmetalpbalkan thanks!

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Added initial support for linking to Go Playground. Click the gopher to try it out: https://t.co/7IcPHYGPFJ. Thanks @jaywgraves /cc @golang

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@simeonwillbanks Ordering here is non-determinisitc because of concurrency. Try a Sleep to force interleaving?: https://t.co/ogYyu0RZMm

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@fabmilo glad you've enjoyed it - thanks!

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@krarick Yeah good point. I've made an initial update of these examples towards named formats for parsing. Thanks for the tip!

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We're having another issue with site and are working to resolve it now.

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Some examples around writing files in #golang: https://t.co/XHPUJGFl.

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We had an ~11m outage of the http://t.co/03L8n45q site - sorry about the inconvenience.

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@myitzhaksamuel I'm not familiar with any tutorials of that type yet. You could try Google-translating through https://t.co/9BsirpEl

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Basic of reading files in #golang: https://t.co/exUvXRNP. Too much to cover in one page but this should get you started.

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@ryandotsmith I'm not sure - what do you think? The format currently requires <= 58 chars and lots of printing...

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Time formatting & parsing in #golang: https://t.co/NM63cw78. I was really confused by these until I understood the example-based approach.

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JSON in #golang: https://t.co/puaN2bXa. This tripped me up when I was getting started, especially the type assertions for using ad-hoc data.

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Errors in #golang: https://t.co/Tr4Hnntu. I love Go's use of return values for errors and natural support for data-conveying errors.

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@RalphCorderoy Yeah I agree - I've fixed this in the site - thanks!

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@jogbert This use of cat+grep always seemed to me aligned with the philosophy "do one thing and do it well", but I often get flack for it (:

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@rob_pike great to hear on both counts - thanks! Issues / pull requests at https://t.co/qIEg2VVf or email to [email protected] are best.

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`cat examples.txt | grep -v "#" | wc -l` => 60. Building into some network client/server examples soon: https://t.co/ZpASypgG.

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#golang has excellent support for string formatting in the printf tradition: https://t.co/rF4oO3V8.

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Basic (pseudo)random number generation mechanics in #golang: https://t.co/UX2K09RH.