Category Archives: Go

Gocheck: A rich testing library for Go

Posted on 2010/11/06 by niemeyer

It’s time to release my “side project” which has been evolving over the last several months: Gocheck. I’ve been watching Go for some time, and have been getting more and more interested in the language. My first attempt to write … Continue reading →

Posted in Architecture, Go, Project, Test | 4 Comments

Introducing The Hacking Sandbox

Posted on 2010/09/25 by niemeyer

When I started programming in Python long ago, one of the features which really hooked me up was the quality interactive interpreter offered with the language implementation. It was (and still is) a fantastic way to experiment with syntax, semantics, … Continue reading →

Posted in C/C++, Erlang, Go, Haskell, Java, Lua, Perl, Ruby | 10 Comments

Python has a GIL, and lots of complainers

Posted on 2010/07/09 by 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 | 36 Comments

Support for Launchpad and Bazaar in goinstall

Posted on 2010/07/03 by 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 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