I am able to use different programming languages. I know most of the well-known languages without any problems: C, C++, Java, Python, JavaScript, Typescript, PHP…
However, I wanted to expand my horizon. Zig didn’t do much for me neither did Rust, but now that I’ve written some Golang. I admit, I’m intrigued by the language.
I love the fact it’s compiled to native machine language. There is still one caveat: despite Go being a GC language, you often still need to manage your memory. Sound strange right? But I needed to use io.Copy instead of io.ReadAll to avoid memory issues. But also you need to explicitly call defer res.Body.Close() to avoid Go not cleaning-up the HTTP response… Ow well, so you learn it the hard way. Overall, I’m still very optimistic with Go. And looking forward to use it more often in some of my open-source projects.
See my first project in Go: https://gitlab.melroy.org/melroy/gitlab-artifact-deployer-go. Which I wrote in 3 days.
Did you try Go? What are your thoughts?
I’ve tried to learn Go, but I just couldn’t wrap my head around it, how to see the field and where to go.
Yes, I suck at the board game.
That is another kind of Go. You are talking about the board game Go. I’m talking about the programming language Go. hehe!
Yeah, well aware, it just amused me at the time.