Go

About Code written in Go. My open source Go projects are available at code.knabel.dev/go-lang.

Zirric: Going Virtual  — 

A few years ago while I started working on Lithia, I decided to use whatever takes me to my goal. Getting finished was the primary focus. And I did.

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Zirric: A new Beginning  — 

After a long time of procrastination I finally resumed my work on my new programming language. Back then I wrote about the current state of Lithia and how I arrived in a dead end regarding the language design. Sure I proposed some large changes, but if a lazy evaluated programming language with a parensless call syntax becomes a strict evaluated programming language with a regular call syntax and multiple additional features, is it still the same boat… language?

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The current state of Lithia after 2 years  — 

In 2021 I started working on the current Go implementation of my own experimental programming language called Lithia. Now it is available in version v0.0.19. Infrequently I also wrote some words about it on this blog. It has been designed to be an experiment, that is able to teach some lessons and that can be fulfilled.

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Statically read files with go:embed  — 

Did you ever want to access the contents of an auxiliary file from within your repository to access the contents at runtime? This file could include some static settings like the version of the application, translations for user-facing texts, GraphQL requests or SQL queries. The typical solution to this problem is shipping your binary with the auxiliary files.

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Overriding Go values with ldflags  — 

You can override Go values with ldflags during the build.

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Bash scripts with Gum  — 

I gave the newest tool of Charm Gum a try. It allows to create interactive bash scripts in just a few lines of code.

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Go 1.19 new Garbage Collection Memory Limit  — 

Go 1.19 introduced a new option to customize the runtime Garbage Collection behavior: Memory Limit. This might be interesting when embedding Go within a mobile application.

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Hugo's Syntax Highlighting is static  — 

Unlinke many other static site generators, the syntax highlighting of Hugo does not use client-side JavaScript, which is great!

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Go Data Race Detector  — 

You can run your Go program or your tests with the Data Race detection enabled. This might cost some performance and memory, but in case a data race is being detected, that’s worth it!

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Iterating over a map in Go  — 

Iterating over a map in Go is not predictable. This is a design decision to avoid relying on memory layout.

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