All tagged interface

Generics in Go

Generics in Go

John Arundel

Generics what now? This friendly, down-to-earth tutorial series explains how Go’s generic functions and types work, why we need them, and where we can use them.

Ten commandments of Go

Ten commandments of Go

John Arundel

I spend a lot of time working with students to help them write clearer, better, and more useful Go programs, using a fairly small set of general principles, and here they are. The first is “be boring”, and I’ve tried to follow that advice.

map[string]interface{} in Go

map[string]interface{} in Go

John Arundel

What is a map[string]interface{} or map[string]any in Go, and why is it so useful? How do we deal with maps of string to interface{} in our programs? What the heck is an interface{}, anyway?