Go, commonly referred to as "golang", is a fast, statically typed, compiled language created by Google. The language was initially developed as an alternative to C++ for server infrastructure and has native support for concurrency.
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Simple Web Analytics Logger
I've been learning Go for a few months and this is one of my first projects with it. It's an analytics beacon for my low-volume blog; it emits a tracking pixel and logs parameters from the browser to ...
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Event-triggering - Ready, On, Fire
I have implemented a kind of thing that does event triggering in Golang. This is open-sourced here. Review and suggestions appreciated.
First thing I am trying to implement is adding event listeners ...
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Brightness Web Server
This is the first real program I've written in Go so have at it! I wrote it because I use a tiling window manager that doesn't have any brightness control functionality (at least not that I know of).
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Simple Go TCP server and client
I'm a Go (and programming in general) newbie and the task was to program a Go server that would accept incoming messages, take each line, reverse its order and case and send it back. Besides doing ...
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xkcd comics data provider
Please help me improving this code(golang), thanks!
Why I need built a API for xkcd
Can't get the data provided by xkcd directly in front-end(CORS).
So we can package the data to 10 comics per ...
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Optimized Int Reader
I am new in Golang, and decided to create a function that could cater to my needs of reading an integer from stdin. I need the function to be as efficient and fast ...
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Lexer for an experimental tiny language in Go
I am implementing a lexer for an experimental language by the name "Phoenix", the language supports four primary arithmetic expression for integers only (add, subtract, multiply, divide), variable ...
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Quicksort implementation in Go
Learning Go and trying to get a grip of the various concepts it uses. Following is my implementation of Quicksort (choosing last element as pivot). It takes the length of the array and the subsequent ...
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Create a new unique file
For debugging purposes I am storing requests into files. This code is supposed to create a new file for each request.
Somehow it doesn't look very nice, can it be improved? Additionally it would be ...
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Byte conversion in my Caesar's cipher
I was wondering if I am doing any useless conversions byte←→int, for example:
byte((int(ch-'A')+shift)%26 + 'A')
Converting ...
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Recursive Web Crawler in Go
This is probably my third Go application. It essentially takes one or two command line arguments of wikipedia articles and pulls every /wiki/ link that isn't a special page, memoizes them to avoid ...
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Formatting a CHANGES text file as HTML
I have a function which is used to convert text (a CHANGES file) into HTML for reading. The function is essentially line-based: if the line is of this type, do this thing; if some other type, do that ...
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Golang: reading and writing files in parallel
I am trying to read a big file line by line, inspect and cleanse each row and write to either of two output files depending on the outcome. I am using channels for this. I am still quite new to this ...
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Parse long string in Go
I'm sure that my server can work with better performance, but it's just a dream.
Parsing a very long strings is not so obvious task for me.
I have a server that handles a lot of clients requests and ...
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Emmental interpreter written in Go
Emmental is an interesting esoteric programming language based almost entirely on rewriting its interpreter. The language provides a very basic set of standard computing operators, and an ...
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Pomodoro timer in Go
My goal is to implement a simple pomodoro timer using Go: channels, goroutines. I'm newbie in Go world and have some misunderstanding about naming convention. I read a lot of Docker's code on GitHub ...
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Plotting savings rate in Go
I'm picking up Go, and wrote this simple script to parse a two csv files (spending.csv and savings.csv) to plot savings rate graph.
I would like to hear some generic comments on code readability, ...
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Alternate letters to UpperCase
As an exercise I repeated this Java question, but in Go: Convert string to mixed case
The objective is for every second letter to be converted to uppercase.
Go string processing is relatively new to ...
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Concurrent resizable ring buffer Golang
I'm trying to find the fastest way to enqueue and dequeue items concurrently in Go.
There are some restrictions:
it needs to be unbounded
memory allocation should be low.
multiple producers
(...
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Uploading large videos using go
I am using the following function to upload videos (around 1 gb). It works properly.
My requirements are (these checks are being done in a different function using the mediainfo library):
check if ...
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Reading and processing a big CSV file
I am trying to write a script to read a CSV file containing 1 million domain names, look up these domain names and store the results in another CSV file. I am trying the following code, but the number ...
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recursive descent parser
Here is a non-predictive recursive descent parser I wrote for the following grammar:
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Golang Tour Web Crawler Exercise
In the last few days I've played around with Go a little and took the language tour. The last exercise (text here) requires you to crawl a graph that simulates a set of Web pages with links, using ...
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Encrypting strings in Golang
This is a an example application for testing some encryption and decryption functions in Golang. The functions encryptString(), ...
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Idiomatic abstract inheritance with Go
I am currently discovering Golang, and I try to implement some random variable generation functions similar to R functions.
To avoid code repetition, I'd like to use inheritance, which is quite ...
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Go lang Tour Webcrawler Exercise - Solution
I am new in Go and for study I have to hold a presentation about concurrency in Go. I think the Go lang Tour - Webcrawler exercise is a nice example to talk about that. Before I will do that, it would ...
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Summing chemical properties in a CSV stream
I have written my first program in go. It's rewritten from python.
Program takes csv file, emulates query ...
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ICMP ping program in Go
I've just written a ping application in Go. I'm proud of the logic, but I want some help to refactor it. The program has too much code in main, and pulling ...
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Port pinger command line tool
Checking if some port is up on the network is a very common task when working with remote services. A common way to check is using telnet, but I have two practical ...
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A scalable lock-free channel
Here's my lock-free channel impl lfchan,
I didn't want to copy/paste the code here since it is multiple files.
I'm trying to get an idea of what can be improved or if there are any bugs in it.
chan....
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Library to handle strings and numbers
I have created a pretty bad (just being honest) Golang library. I will take any and all advice, as long as it's helpful. Sorry it's so long. Also, I easily forget some things, so many functions in <...
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Golang Flood Fill
I started learning Go a few months ago and am trying to shake the rust off after a project took me out of the Go world for several weeks. I'd appreciate a code review on this flood fill algorithm I ...
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Parse Numerals from a String in Golang
I recently tried my hand at writing Go code for a project I'm working on. In order to help myself get a better grasp I decided to write a simple yet somewhat practical program for parsing numeral ...
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Selection sort algorithm
I am just trying to use Go so I will be thankful for all remarks and corrections:
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Regular expression matching with string slice in Go
I have a slice of strings, and within each string contains multiple key=value formatted messages. I want to pull all the keys out of the strings so I can collect ...
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MongoDB CRUD operations for various types of data in Go
First of all I am a newbie in Go. I wrote a CRUD REST API that consists of handlers, a database layer and so on, and it contains a lot of code duplication. I see some patterns here, and I know how to ...
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Circuit Simulator
I'm trying to learn Golang from Java, and to do this, I wrote a basic circuit simulator with only two circuits. Is there anything I can do better to make it more idiomatic?
Simulator.go
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XOR 256 Block Encrypting and Decrypting
I am quite new to Go but have found it to be very useful for my use case (game server).
I have a routine that encrypts/decrypts the game packets which was written in C++ which can be seen here and ...
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Command called 'sprinkle'
I have a command called sprinkle. I'm not going to explain anything about it, because I want whoever that reviews the code to also tell me how much of the command ...
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Slice chunking in Go
I have a slice with ~2.1 million log message strings in it that I am parsing for regular expression matches. For any matches, I add it to a local slice and then return said slice.
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Listings Manager
I am trying to learn to code using Dependency Injection and Inversion of Control in Go.
Please consider the following code. I am basically creating an interface ...
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Selection sort algorithm with increasing/decreasing sort options
I am running through some traditional algorithms in Go, and I was hoping to get feedback on efficiency and optimization.
Below is a basic selection sort algorithm that takes a parameter to dictate ...
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Executing periodic tasks
I am writing a code in Golang to execute a periodic function (every 2 second). According to documentation and an example I have written two programs. Can anybody tell which one is better? Also, is ...
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Golang implementation of Pascal's triangle
How can I improve my code and make it more idiomatic?
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Folder watching in Go
To try and track down a troublesome AS400 bug, my company wants me to keep track of the order in which files are put into a folder. I spent an hour whipping something up in Go, but I'm still pretty ...
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Web Crawler in Go
I'm a beginner in Go, just finished the Golang tour. This crawler is not the same as the one in the exercises in the tour but something I wrote myself. I am looking for suggestions for making it ...
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A* Go application
I've written a generic implementation of the A* algorithm as a first Go
program, since I had implemented that both in C and in Python before and Go
reminds me a bit of both. I'm looking for general ...
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Go database helper code
Today I've implemented a database helper in Go. I'm new in Go world so I just wanted someone with more experience to take a look and tell me what is good and especially, what is bad (and why, if ...
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Bruteforce MD5 Password cracker
I just started learning Go, and I wanted to created a project to learn more about concurrency in go. I heard about Go's lightweight threads, so I wanted to give them a try.
This program uses ...
