Bitfield Consulting

Writing concurrent programs is easy, but understanding why they don’t work is much harder. In our continuing tutorial, we’ll learn about when and why goroutines starve, sleep, or yield.

Your car may be self-driving (up to a point), but are you? Independent-minded people sooner or later reach a point where they can’t rise higher without becoming the boss. Should you go it alone and start your own business?

How do you test functions that can’t be tested? That’s easy: you don’t! Instead, you use the magic function technique to break down the elephants—excuse me, functions—into smaller bites that you can test.

Our brains can only do one thing at once, but Go programs can manage millions of independently-executing concurrent tasks. Let’s find out how that works, and learn why concurrency is central to Go.

Whither the weather? In another extract from the not-yet-award-winning book The Secrets of Rust: Tools, let’s write a simple API client that can tell us if it’s sweater or swimsuit season.

Generics introduces a whole new kind of interface to Go: one based not on methods, but on type sets. Let’s explore the possibilities.