Writing code has its perks for sure and for me one of these is the satisfaction of being able to think of something and then just write the code to bring it to life.
After all the writing, testing, debugging and adding and removing lines and lines of code it’s nice to be able to look back and visualize all the hard work that you have put into creating your pet project.
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Since version 1.7 the Go testing package provides the ability to run some of the tests in parallel (well not entirely in parallel but that is another blog post 😉).
This is optional functionality you can enable by adding a single line of code t.Parallel() in your subtests. But how does that work exactly and what does Go actually do with these tests?
I find the way that strings have been implemented in Go to be really interesting but also a bit confusing when you are first introduced to them. Go has native UTF8 support, which flows through how the source code is written to how strings and “runes” are represented (runes is the thing that really got me by surprise but more on that later). So what does Go do differently with strings that is worth mentioning?
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