Questions from a new Go developer

Go Time: Golang, Software Engineering

In this episode we answer any/all questions from a new Go developer. Features, best practices, quirks of the language… it’s all on the table for discussion.

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Featuring:

• Duarte O.C⚡️ – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Johnny Boursiquot – Website, GitHub, X
• Ian Lopshire – GitHub, X

Show Notes:

• Ambrosio
• NewsHavn
• errgroup package

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

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1. It's Go Time! (00:00:00)

2. Duarte O.Carmo (00:00:44)

3. Sponsor: FireHydrant (00:07:58)

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4. Dealing with binaries (00:10:23)

5. If err = nil (00:14:17)

6. Returning back (00:17:51)

7. Adding to errors (00:21:43)

8. Docker (00:25:50)

9. Package namespacing (00:31:48)

10. Structure for Go projects (00:37:54)

11. ORMs (00:45:05)

12. SQLite (00:51:43)

13. Concurrency (00:53:33)

14. Unpopular opinions! (01:01:34)

15. Duarte's unpop (01:01:54)

16. Johnny's unpop (01:06:03)

17. Outro (01:08:36)