Pete Keen's status - Meier's Bookwyrm

Michael started reading Learning Go: An Idiomatic Approach to Real-World Go Programming by Jon Bodner

Jon Bodner: Learning Go: An Idiomatic Approach to Real-World Go Programming (Paperback, 2021, O'Reilly Media)

Go is rapidly becoming the preferred language for building web services. While there are plenty …

Starting to get back into programming outside of work again, and considering that a lot of the software I'm running in my Homelab is written in Go, I chose to have another look at that.

Pete Keen replied to Michael's status

@mmeier one nice thing about go is the culture that strongly advocates for running go fmt. Most stuff is therefore somewhat easy to read once you understand the idioms.

Still entirely too much manual error handling, IMO.

Michael replied to Pete Keen's status

@zrail@hachyderm.io Yupp, I think it avoids a lot of the sillier fights I'm regularly seeing in the C++ community.

Well, I'm coming from a C and C++ background, so I'm used to painful error handling. ;-)