Category Archives: Go

Python has a GIL, and lots of complainers

Posted on 2010-07-09 by Gustavo Niemeyer

I’ve just read a post by Brett Cannon where, basically, he complains about complainers. If you don’t know who Brett is, you’re probably not a heavy Python user. Brett is a very important Python core developer which has been around … Continue reading →

Posted in Erlang, Go, Python | 31 Comments

Support for Launchpad and Bazaar in goinstall

Posted on 2010-07-03 by Gustavo Niemeyer

The patch submitted last weekend to support Launchpad and Bazaar in goinstall went in! This means that once the next release of Go is out (or you sync up with the tip code) you’ll be able to host modules for … Continue reading →

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The forgotten art of error checking

Posted on 2010-06-17 by Gustavo Niemeyer

I was just rambling randomly yesterday, in the usual microblogging platforms, about how result checking seems to be ignored or done badly. The precise wording was: It’s really amazing how little attention error handling receives in most software development. Even … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Go, Java, Lua, Perl, Python, Ruby, Snippet, Test | 10 Comments