I’ve been using Go for a few years now, mostly in my open source project Lazygit. In my day job I use Ruby and Typescript, and I’ve also spent some time with Rust. Each of those languages have design quirks that can grind a developer’s gears, and although my own precious gears have been ground by every language I’ve used, Go is the only language that has made me feel indignant.

Lexical Scanning in Go, a talk by Rob Pike at Google Technology User Group given on Tuesday, 30 August 2011. The slides: http://rspace.googlecode.com/hg/slid...

Many seasoned engineers working in JVM based languages have seen errors like this: [error] (run-main-0) java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create native thread: [error] java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: unable to create native thread: [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.start0(Native Method) [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.start(Thread.java:813) ... [error] at java.base/java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:844) OutOfMemory…err…out of threads. On my laptop running Linux, this happens after a paltry 11500 threads. If you try the same thing in Go by starting Goroutines that sleep indefinitel...

How I used benchmarking, profiling, and tracing to heavily optimize a program

In this blog post, we discuss how the implementation of a Go microservice coded during a Hackathon is saving us $50,000 in costs per year.

In this article, I discuss why you should give Go a chance and where to start.