mfs' nibbles

Tag: go

2022-04-26

Have started learning Go by reading and working through The Go Programming Language. Have finished chapter one. Thoughts so far based on my experience with Python and Rust:

Syntax is ok, fairly clean.
vim-go is really useful. The automatic import management is nice.
Surprised there was no set collection as there is in Rust and Python. Recommendation seems to be to just use a map.
The standard library is extensive. More like Python's than Rust's.
One example involved sharing a variable between goroutines using a mutex that was created and locked/unlocked manually. This was neat and I quite liked it.
I tend to run all examples using go run .... This makes Go more like a scripting language and allows for quick testing.

Thinking of rewriting nibble in Go as an exercise.