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In defense of “Syntactic Sugar”
One of my biggest career pet peeves as a software developer is when I see other developers derisively write “Well, that is just syntactic sugar“ in response to a proposal for improving a programming language. So today I want to write in defense of this often maligned underdog, and explain why syntactic sugar not only …
How to specify a zeroed UUID in MySQL
Photo by Chris Barbalis on Unsplash Working on a recent project that dealt with data synchronization across disparate systems, I realized I could not use the oh-so-easy INT for primary keys. Instead I chose to use the emerging best practice of employing UUIDs for distributed databases. However, the library functions in Go are not friendly …
PHP delegation vs. GoLang type embedding
PHP implements composition (vs. inheritance) of object class properties and methods to other classes using delegation. Go on the other hand implements composition with type embedding. Read this post to learn about the differences and to appreciate the benefits of Go’s approach compared to that of PHP.
Proposal: Contracts in Go (Not Generics)
Photo by Cytonn Photography on Unsplash #Update When I wrote this I did not remember that the draft design for Go2 generics chose to use the name “Contracts” for a new language feature to provide a Go-idiomatic response to generics. Still, I stand by my use of the name contracts for this proposal as I …
GoLang Strict Typing and Interface Slices
Photo by Louise Lyshøj on Unsplash This is a GoLang Experience Report. …but you cannot define the rows parameter as type []RowInserter because []interface{} won’t match it, even though RowInserter is itself an interface. Background I am relatively new to programming Go, but I have been developing software professionally in a variety of programming languages …
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My interests have evolved over time. Thus so should my blogging.
My previous blogs can be found at HardcoreWP.com and MikeSchinkel.com. I plan to merge them all into one at some point. But not today.