Introducing the Go Race Detector

I’ve been working on a bunch of longform obligation pieces and while they’re a lot of fun, they’re also steadily driving me insane. So I took a day off to write about all of the kinds of automated testing I know about. I’m defining tests here to be “an independent verification program that, as part of verification, executes the code we want to verify.” This means types are not tests, as they don’t involve execution of the code, and contracts are not tests, because they’re not executed as an independent program.

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TL;DR: Can we check if a mutex is locked in Go? Yes, but not with a mutex API. Here’s a solution for use in debug builds. Although you can Lock() or Unlock() a mutex, you can’t check whether it’s locked. While it is a reasonable omission (e.g., due to possible race conditions; see also Why […]

Overcoming an issue in Go versions before 1.3

This is an additional post in the “Go is not good” series. Go does have some nice features, hence the “The Good” part in this post, but overall I find it cumbersome and painful to use when we go beyond API or network servers (which is what it was designed ...

Deciding on a programming language is always a difficult choice, learn why Stream switched from Python to Go as our language of choice.