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Golang

Go is an open-source programming language supported by Google

It's bingo time (AoC 2021 Day 4)

It's bingo time (AoC 2021 Day 4)

Our underwater journey continues. It can get dark underwater, and today is no exception. The only thing we can see apparently is a giant squid that has attached itself to the outside of our submarine. It's only logical that we decide to play Bingo with the squid. Hey, maybe we

Advent of Code 2021 - Day 3

Advent of Code 2021 - Day 3

Deep under the water, we find ourselves hearing creaking noises. Our submarine handily gives us a diagnostics report. Sadly, as is oft too common in AoC, the report format is complete garbage, to put it mildly. Our puzzle input comes in the form of binary numbers. The task is to

Advent of Code 2021 - Day 2

Advent of Code 2021 - Day 2

The advent of code is an annual coding challenge in the month of December. This article covers the second day's puzzle with a solution written in Go.

Advent of Code 2021 - Day 1

Advent of Code 2021 - Day 1

The advent of code is an annual coding challenge in the month of December. This article covers the first day's puzzle with a solution written in Go.

Baking a Pi for Google Go

Baking a Pi for Google Go

No that is not a typo in the title! Google Go was first released to the wild in 2009, exactly three years ago [http://google-opensource.blogspot.de/2009/11/hey-ho-lets-go.html]. Since then it has grown from an experimental language to production ready language with Go 1. Go is available

Comparison of IDEs for Google Go

Introduction Go 1 was released in March 2012 and has gained some popularity since then. Naturally developers are looking for proper IDEs to support code completion, syntax highlighting and other editing features. Comparison of IDEs Sublime Text 2 Sublime Text 2 is a relatively new editor and has gained popularity