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Advices and feeedback on software projects for students
So, I am a CE student and was wondering about the weight of personal projects on portfolio. I recently started developing a Block Storage Engine after learning about it in AWS EBS. Is this a good ...
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Wait for 2 goroutines with WaitGroup or channel [closed]
If I want to do 2 tasks and wait until both are done, is it better to run both in their own goroutines and parent waits (2 work + 1 waits), or run just one of them in background and make the parent do ...
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What is the best way to the sync.Once.Do() in Go?
I am coding a server in GoLang that allows multiple clients to connect to it and each time a client sends a message to the server that message is propagated to all of the other clients. I came up with ...
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Golang x509.VerifyOptions CertificatePolicies are not validated during certificate verification?
In Go 1.24.0 there is an additional parameter in x509.VerifyOptions to be included when verifying X.509 certificate. The problem is that if my X.509 ceritificate doesn't contain any policies or ...
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Go generics where value is comparable and pointer-to-value has methods
I have a generic struct that requires passing a generic type that fulfills the constraints where the value is comparable so I can use it in a map index, and the value implements Scanner, ie. type ...
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PAX headers on tar.gz archives do not store access time on Windows
I have a utility written in go that creates a tar.gz archive. It preserves file times inside the PAX headers while creating the archive. The file times I am explicitly adding to PAX headers are: atime ...
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How do I delete a slice element
I'm in the process of learning Golang, and I'm currently trying to create a Todo project.
My knowledge is limited to the GO base.
Please take a look at my code and tell me how I can delete a task.
The ...
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Programmer owns the architecture, AI implements crate-level modules in Rust — how does this compare to other languages?
After working on several Rust projects with AI assistance, I want to share a division of responsibility that has worked well in practice, and ask whether others have found the same — or a better ...
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go/ast, insertion in file.Decls produces invalid code because of comment
I want to create a new struct embedding original struct. But if original struct has comment, it gets placed in the middle of embed struct declaration.
Example code:
https://go.dev/play/p/8xqxpmNy2Qj
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Prisma client not generated during Go build in deployment environment (Choreo)
I am building a Go backend using Prisma (prisma-client-go)
Locally, everything works fine because I run the following command manually:
PRISMA_CLIENT_GO_BINARIES_ALL=true go run
github.com/steebchen/...
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How do I order documentation for package declarations in go
Given a package layout as follows:
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└── pkg
└── pkg1
├── a.go
├── b.go
└── pkg1.go
It's possible to write documentation for the package declaration that appears in the ...
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Why does adding fmt.Printf change the equality result of two interface variables holding empty structs in Go? [duplicate]
I'm observing a strange behavior in Go where the presence of a fmt.Printf statement affects the boolean result of an interface comparison.
Env:
go version go1.25.6 darwin/amd64
package main
import &...
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Forcing Go to not use the gold linker
I'm trying to build a Go package in Flathub's CI for an aarch64 Linux architecture. The build is failing while compiling a C dependency:
# github.com/rclone/rclone
/usr/lib/sdk/golang/pkg/tool/...
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Delve debug go app in docker container with network_mode host
I want to debug my go code which is mounted into a docker container. Delve is installed inside the container.
I am using goland by jetbrains.
Everything works fine as long as I don't use the container ...
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Which programming language is best for learning System Design?
I’m planning to start learning System Design, but I’m a bit confused about which programming language I should focus on for it.
Most of my experience so far is with C++ and JS, but I often see people ...
