The Software Life

Copy on write is an interesting technique with a wide variety of applications. It's somewhat related to persistent immutable data struc...

I happened to look at the list on the side of this blog and realized it's been twenty years since I wrote: I'd better try out this ...

In a programming language with exceptions (like Suneido), one of the API design questions is when to return an error, and when to throw it. ...

I recently overhauled the Windows interface for gSuneido. The Go documentation for this is sparse and scattered and sometimes hard to interp...

I'm posting this mostly because it's interesting to look back and see how things change. Hardware Desktop - 27" 2017 iMac Pr...

Go version 1.22 introduced the ability to do a for loop ranging over an integer. For example: for i := range 5 This is normally explained ...

This post follows on from the previous one. ( Go Interface Allocation ) After realizing the allocation from assigning strings to interfaces ...