Don’t be such a square!
Reading back over traits in “The Book” of Rust (that has a biblical feel, doesn’t it?), I realized something that was totally impossible in Go: implementing traits for non-local types i.e. types that you did not create yourself. To see what I mean concretely, let’s say that we wanted to define a square method for floating-point numbers. Sure, it’s actually far fewer keystrokes to just multiply the value by itself, but let’s say we wanna be extra explicit (as things are often better that way). …
With tests! And plenty of apples.
I have been scratching my head lately trying to think of something to do with Go. It’s a perfectly simple, easy-to-use language with a lot of boxes ticked and yet I have been unable to think of anything. Finally, the inspiration struck me: a thread-safe cache with tests. Now, since Go is a relatively high-level language, the actual implementation of this (extremely simple) cache is only wrapper functions around the map data structure. However, it is a good project to get familiar with writing tests and some good Go-isms.
Let’s start my getting our project structure ready. For me, this…
result, result_str, result_str_str…
I’ve been programming in Go again recently after a little hiatus and it has unfortunately brought to my attention the language’s lack of variable shadowing.
Variable shadowing is when you can redefine a variable in your scope and it allows you to do things such as:
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This article is meant to be a sort of reference guide for things that might be useful for people of all experiences in all the very different areas of development.
Git
Anytime you’re coding with other people (and even when you’re not), it can be really important you have a record or archive of all the different code versions that you’ve made. This makes it easy to review, merge, and revert back to code that you want.
The overwhelmingly popular…
Dustin Newman
Go, Rust, and C++. If you say it aloud, it almost rhymes.
