go build gets a -static flag, go fix gets a second life

If you haven't tried the new "go fix" yet, give it a spin. It's a proper revival of the old "gofix" idea. In Go 1.26, it was rebuilt on top of the Go analysis framework. So now it can modernize your c

One of the reasons I originally liked Go was its philosophy: there was usually one obvious way to solve a problem. That simplicity made codebases easier to read, easier to review, and easier for new d

Hi everyone! I’m currently in the early stages of learning Go. I see a lot of projects using Makefiles, and I’m wondering: should I dive into them right now, or is it better to focus purely on Go

When I have an endpoint with more than 10 business logic steps, my brain can't keep track of it all at once. So I end up drawing it out on paper: what functions exist, what each accepts, what it retur

I'm trying to understand the idiomatic Go approach for expressing non-nullability. As I understand it: A struct value can never be . A pointer ( ) can be , so it's commonly used when the absence of a

zenimate supports sprites of up to 32x24 cells (256x192) which is the size of a standard Spectrum screen, and it can import png, jpeg, and gif images (best fit, centre, and stretch modes). Conceivably

Most Go PDF libraries focus on drawing primitives or generating reports from templates. Over the last five years I've been working on a different approach: a layout engine that handles paragraphs, pag

A few mandatory features have been added to zenimate 0.6.1 if you would like to get the update. -- Drag frames to reorder them, right click on frame to insert, duplicate, delete, etc. -- UI elements s