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package main import ( "encoding/json" "fmt" ) type Foo struct { Blah int Flarg string } func main() { var stuff []Foo = []Foo{ Foo{Blah: 8, Flarg: "sure"}, Foo{Blah: 7, Flarg: "mhm"}, } stuffBytes, err := json.MarshalIndent(stuff, "", " ") if err != nil { fmt.Println("Marshaling errors", err) return } fmt.Println("harder to read\n", stuff) fmt.Println("\nbetter\n", string(stuffBytes)) } outupt is easy on the eyes harder to read [{8 sure} {7 mhm}] better [ { "Blah": 8, "Flarg": "sure" }, { "Blah": 7, "Flarg": "mhm" } ]

Go scope is different for for loops and if blocks than in Python For example, with some code, package main import ( "fmt" "slices" ) func main() { var stuff = []string{ "foo", "bar", "hmm", } if idx := slices.IndexFunc(stuff, func(x string) bool { return x == "foo" }); idx == -1 { fmt.Println("yes") found := true } else { fmt.Println("no") found := false } fmt.Printf("found %v\n", found) } But the error is...

Ok cool, realizing, following on from earlier post, that to nicely test the case when I have a Merchant and I am only making updates to it with UpdateMerchantRequest, I would need a nice generic way to obtain a subset struct instance from the other. Getting ChatGPT to help, here is what I asked, Okay I have a strategy I’m using, where I have a go struct for a merchant that mirrors a postgresql database table and also another struct for updates to it which is a subset,...

Asked chat gpt the following conundrum, if I’m using Go struct types to model a data type, matching a table in my postgresql database say, type Merchant struct { id int, created_at time.Time, name string, phone string, email string, } I have the following question, does it make sense that I ended up creating different types also for the HTTP request to create this merchant, type CreateMerchantRequest struct { name string, phone string, email string, } since the id and created_at timestamps are populated automatically, and also another to update the merchant,...

I have not messed around with Golang yet and figured why not try to learn this through just chatting with ChatGPT? Not a full conversation below , but just using this to jot down some notes. And most of the code examples I’m pasting below are from ChatGPT. Error handling is very different in Go So no exceptions like Python. Instead, you can give a return tuple type from a function like this and the second term will be a error code....