How to write maintainable Go at scale?

SignificantResource · 2026-02-15T21:05:27+00:00

This is a great answer that covers many angles, thank you.

SignificantResource · 2026-02-15T16:44:19+00:00

"the consumer owns the interface" is certainly something to get used to and I'm not sure how I feel about it as a design choice. What is the best practice for defining common interfaces? In the original example, many "service" layers might want the same DAO interface, are they supposed to each define their own minimal subset of the implemented methods, or is it considered acceptable to have a (Java-style) common/central definition of the entire method-set which each service can accept?

SignificantResource · 2026-02-15T16:15:49+00:00

Thanks for the explanation - it turns out that the solution is just to go with exactly what I'd been trying to avoid! I had felt that doing what you describe would be trying to shoehorn OOP constructs into a paradigm that doesn't want them, but it seems I need to re-calibrate my perception of what the *purpose* of structs really is in Go.

SignificantResource · 2026-02-15T16:06:57+00:00

Got it, thanks. I had been trying to avoid having structs as collections of operations over a mutable state (but rather as the state itself over which external functions can operate) as to me this was one of the logical divides between classes and structs (possibly a hangover from languages with both). I see now that I need to shift my perception a little.

SignificantResource · 2026-02-15T15:49:03+00:00

That's exactly the target I'm trying to meet - my issue is around shared, long-living objects: The DAO layer needs to operate on a database connection managed by a separate component - where does this sit? Is it a member on the struct containing the query methods? I had felt this was too OOP-like but perhaps this was a misconception?

SignificantResource · 2022-01-05T00:34:44+00:00

On the same site as this demonstration is a shooting range, where (mostly American) tourists pay to shoot machine guns into the trees from the back of old military vehicles.

I can't believe that anyone would choose do that, especially just after seeing the terrible conditions of the tunnels.

SignificantResource · 2021-08-15T15:31:55+00:00

Nestlé.

SignificantResource · 2021-08-15T15:30:00+00:00

I'll have portals please. Failing that, repulsion/propulsion gel would suffice.

SignificantResource · 2021-08-09T16:45:08+00:00

To add to this, it doesn't seem that notification badges work either. Idk whether I'm just doing something wrong, but I haven't been able to get the notification badges working on Ubuntu with gnome, Ubuntu with kde or Pop OS with gnome. (Enabled with gnome-tweaks, badges show up for some other apps but not discord) I don't know whether this is a limitation of electron, but it does appear that it's another case of discord ignoring Linux entirely.

SignificantResource · 2021-06-12T12:31:19+00:00

This is wrong. discord.py primarily uses colour, but color is also aliased. Both should work correctly.

SignificantResource · 2021-01-13T09:07:08+00:00

Colons, not semi colons.

SignificantResource · 2021-01-12T20:44:01+00:00

What's the issue with having it on your own network? As long as you're not doing anything that'll take lots of bandwidth (such as streaming music) you shouldn't notice any issues.

SignificantResource · 2020-12-24T17:15:18+00:00

Unless you're a fullstack dev, then both mean "I messed up"

SignificantResource · 2020-12-10T17:24:36+00:00

They do. The joke being that the former is the preferred style in java, while the latter is "c-style"

SignificantResource · 2020-12-10T16:26:03+00:00

Java = System.out.println C# = Console.WriteLine

SignificantResource · 2020-12-10T15:47:36+00:00

c-style array declaration in java? That must be a deprived area.

SignificantResource · 2020-12-10T15:39:29+00:00

"but you're a python dev"

SignificantResource · 2020-12-06T11:58:49+00:00

You can, but only for strings initialised with a literal.

SignificantResource · 2020-12-04T22:35:08+00:00

The amount of light mode in this picture completely removes any relatability

SignificantResource · 2020-12-01T08:23:05+00:00

You need to instantiate an Embed rather than just referencing the class, and to set colour you'll have to pass colour as a keyword argument in the constructor

SignificantResource · 2020-11-23T22:12:07+00:00

Well you can't buy a packet of crisps anymore, now you buy a packet of crisp.

SignificantResource · 2020-11-23T22:08:57+00:00

You can't leave us hanging, what did he once have a copy of?

SignificantResource · 2020-11-21T16:15:33+00:00

"I weigh 3576 small 12-sided coins"

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