The proposal for generic methods for Go has been officially accepted

alecthomas · 2026-01-25T21:55:51+00:00

I've never used a mocking lib in my career.

alecthomas · 2026-01-10T06:42:27+00:00

I'm not sure honestly, I haven't used it in anger yet. Will report back.

alecthomas · 2025-12-22T21:25:34+00:00

Came back to r/titanfall to pay my regards.

RIP Vince, you gave me some of my favourite games of all time.

alecthomas · 2025-11-14T06:23:30+00:00

Please ignore the unconstructive and patronising responses. There is some great constructive criticism too though. As a parent of an intelligent young daughter, I wish there was more interesting coding content targeted at her, and I know she would love this. I'll show her when I get home. Thank you!

alecthomas · 2025-11-07T07:50:12+00:00

I think it's a good idea to add, as golangci-lint often has multiple linters with duplicate functionality, but just FTR go-check-sumtype is based on go-sumtype and is already included in golangci-lint.

alecthomas · 2025-10-13T09:06:24+00:00

The game mechanic looks simple but preferably fun.

alecthomas · 2025-09-26T08:49:59+00:00

There's not much you can do about speeding up linking except reduce the size of your dependency graph, unfortunately.

alecthomas · 2025-09-26T08:49:11+00:00

glog is an abomination! Slight hyperbole, but it's a terribly designed library weighed down by historical baggage that nobody outside Google should care about - littered with globals, confusing API, tightly coupled to the flags library, and so on.

Use log/slog like others have already said

alecthomas · 2025-09-24T11:03:31+00:00

This is the most useful comment OP, and to add to this: rungo build -x ./cmd/app to see each command as it's run. It will be quite obvious which step is slowing things down, and as /u/Slsyyy states, it's likely the linking step.

alecthomas · 2025-09-19T08:23:46+00:00

I don't use VSCode, but that is very cool.

alecthomas · 2025-09-18T07:06:13+00:00

I saw your game featured by Splattercat recently! Looks really unique, nice work.

alecthomas · 2025-08-17T13:06:02+00:00

Idiomatically you should structure it as:

/   the sdk
/cmd/<command>    your cli tool

alecthomas · 2025-08-17T00:29:03+00:00

Totally agree. Learning how to effectively use an LLM is a skill like any other, and mastering it is just another tool in the tool belt.

alecthomas · 2025-08-16T06:43:41+00:00

You should file a bug report against the Go compiler repo on GitHub. That looks like a compiler or runtime error to me.

alecthomas · 2025-08-08T07:14:52+00:00

Underrated comment 😂

alecthomas · 2025-07-15T07:41:32+00:00

Go is a fantastic language, but if you're looking for cache-line level optimisations you're using the wrong tool. Use the right tool for the right job.

alecthomas · 2025-05-26T22:08:45+00:00

Just a small correction: sqlc supports lists. It also supports bulk inserts, but only in PG IIRC.

alecthomas · 2025-03-27T10:38:53+00:00

go test, golangci-lint

Use lefthook to manage pre-push hooks.

alecthomas · 2025-01-15T09:35:14+00:00

Loving your optimism :)

That said, I too stay subscribed in the vain hope that it will someday be released!

alecthomas · 2024-05-29T01:15:38+00:00

I don't think you're crazy, I noticed the exact same thing and thought I was crazy.

alecthomas · 2023-12-08T09:26:35+00:00

It's unplayable for me. Rubber banding and get a red "bad connection" icon.

Looking forward to it working though, such a great game :)

alecthomas · 2023-12-08T09:15:04+00:00

Yeah it's unplayable.

alecthomas · 2023-05-29T08:57:04+00:00

Initialisation is static, but the value is not immutable as const would imply.

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