Does a break statement break from a switch/select?

Break statements, The Go Programming Language Specification. A “break” statement terminates execution of the innermost “for”, “switch” or “select” statement. BreakStmt = “break” [ Label ] . If there is a label, it must be that of an enclosing “for”, “switch” or “select” statement, and that is the one whose execution terminates (§For statements, §Switch … Read more

Golang template engine pipelines

There are 2 template packages, text/template and html/template. They have the same interface, but the html/template package is for generating HTML output safe against code injection, and should be used instead of text/template whenever the output is HTML. Since they have the same interface but the html/template provides some extra functionality (contextual escaping of the … Read more

Slice chunking in Go

You don’t need to make new slices, just append slices of logs to the divided slice. http://play.golang.org/p/vyihJZlDVy var divided [][]string chunkSize := (len(logs) + numCPU – 1) / numCPU for i := 0; i < len(logs); i += chunkSize { end := i + chunkSize if end > len(logs) { end = len(logs) } divided … Read more

What exactly does runtime.Gosched do?

Note: As of Go 1.5, GOMAXPROCS is set to the number of cores of the hardware: golang.org/doc/go1.5#runtime, below the original answer before 1.5. When you run Go program without specifying GOMAXPROCS environment variable, Go goroutines are scheduled for execution in single OS thread. However, to make program appear to be multithreaded (that’s what goroutines are … Read more

Go Error Handling Techniques [closed]

Your code is idiomatic and in my opinion it is the best practice available. Some would disagree for sure, but I would argue that this is the style seen all over the standard libraries in Golang. In other words, Go authors write error handling in this way.

Why a generic can’t be assigned to another even if their type arguments can?

Instantiating a generic type with different type arguments produces two new different named types. Note that every time you supply a type argument, including in function arguments or return types, you are instantiating the generic type: // Props is instantiated with type argument ‘Generic’ func Problem() Props[Generic] { return ExampleProps } Therefore Props[Example] is just … Read more

Include js file in Go template

You need a Handler or a HandlerFunc which will send the file content (jquery.min.js) to the web browser when requested. You have 3 options: Doing It Manually This is the more complex solution. It would look like in your handler function you read the content of the file, set proper response content type (application/javascript) and … Read more