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Go Testing

Go: basic testing and coverage

Go already has a testing module in its standard library that is ready for our use, we just need to import it and use it. …

Go

Go: race conditions on goroutines and mutexes

In past posts I talked a bit about goroutines, deadlocks and channels . But there is another quite interesting issue …

Go

Go: channels, understanding the goroutines deadlocks

When working with channels there is a quite common error that occurs when you are not familiar with the concepts, the …

Go

Go: use of channels to communicate goroutines

So far I have explained how to run a goroutine, execute code concurrently with the goroutines and wait for them to …

Go

Go: introduction to goroutines and concurrency

As I mentioned in the introduction to the go programming language: go is a specialized concurrency language . It is a …

Go

Go: package import and module management

In go you can consider a package as all the files contained in a directory and a module as a collection of packages. To …

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Go: Structs, inheritance, polymorphism and encapsulation

As I already mentioned to you in the introduction to the Golang or Go programming language , this language does not have …

Go

Go: string runes and bytes explained

In this entry I will explain the basics of how strings, runes and bytes work in go, and even a little bit of utf-8. To …

Go

Golang maps or dictionaries

In the go programming language, a map or hash table is the equivalent of a dictionary; they have a key that is related …

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Go: slices and arrays, basic characteristics and most common uses

In go or golang slices, arrays and maps are structures for handling data collections. In this entry I am going to talk …