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Gopher Guides is the company blog at gopherguides.com, writing about programming. Since 2020, 4 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.

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Links on Hacker News per year · peak 4 in 2021

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Why HN links it

HN commenters link a Gopher Guides post on test cleanup in Go 1.14, covering testing.(*T).Cleanup, which lets test helpers register their own cleanup functions. No comment judges the writing itself.

Summarised by Claude from a sample of 2 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.

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What Hacker News says?

  1. Buried in the notes is a small, but useful addition to the testing package that allows your test helpers to register their own cleanup functions (testing.(*T).Cleanup). I wrote a blog post discussing it in depth here: https://www.gopherguides.com/articles/test-cleanup-in-go-1-1...

    Comment linking /articles/test-cleanup-in-go-1-14/

    on “Go 1.14 release notes”
  2. Submitted Leveraging the Go Type System as a story · 96 points

    HN discussion
  3. It's not a great example. I think it's trying to show a mapping operation for a generic container where the container values are of one type and the mapping function is allowed to return a container with values of a different type. Without generics, something along the lines of the following (with runnable example at https://go.dev/play/p/KHBI1uAhbO0 ): type MySlice []int // Map maps from a slice of ints to a slice…

    Comment linking /articles/golang-generic-methods

    on “Go 1.27 Interactive Tour”
  4. Submitted The New Slices Package in Go as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  5. Submitted Embracing the Go Type System as a story · 2 points

    HN discussion
  6. Submitted Why Your Team Still Needs Go Training in the Age of AI as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  7. Submitted Exploring “Io/Fs” to Improve Test Performance and Testability in Go as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  8. Submitted Where and When to Use Iota in Go as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  9. Submitted What's in a Name? – Keynote by Dave Cheney at Go Get Community Conference as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion
  10. Submitted What’s New in Go 1.14: Test Cleanup as a story · 1 points

    HN discussion

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