golang_gotchas

golang gotchas

Anything I didn't know about golang and is somehow special to golang for me with programming background in Java, Python, Groovy, C, C++ and misc other programming languages

Maybe it helps others starting to use golang :-)

1. acceptLanguage - Sample using golang.org/x/text/language to select the correct language from HTTP Accept-Language
2. broadcastChan - Sample how to implement simple broadcasts
3. compareMaps -Typical pitfall when comparing map elements
4. copyStructs - Sample code using github.com/jinzhu/copier to copy structs
5. debugHTTPClient - Sample code which uses httputil to get low level debugging of http clients
6. errorMarshaling - Sample code hoe marshaling of errors works
7. fetchUrls - Use gofuncs to execute get requests against a number of urls and calculate responsetime statistics
8. github - Retrieve all public repositories of a github organization with a home grown client or a client using the google go-github library
9. gorohttp - Simple sample code how to kick off http requests as fast as possible
10. httpStress - More complex sample code how to kick off http requests as fast as possible
11. httpClient - Sample how to use timeouts in a httpClient
12. i18n - Sample code using github.com/nicksnyder/go-i18n/i18n to enable localization
13. jsonMarshalling - Print the different marshal/unmarshal results of different structures into/from JSON
14. logging - Sample code using go.uber.org/zap to create structured logs and use log hooks
15. pointers - Sample code to demonstrate a common error using pointers in golang when you are used to use C or C++
16. pollURLs - Golang pollURL sample code
17. sigTerm - Catch SIGTERM or SIGINT to gracefully shutdown program
18. templates - Sample code using golang /text/template
19. utils
    1. json.go - pretty print JSON
20. waitGroupTimeout - Sample which implements a waitGroup which can timeout