https://blog.turboawesome.win/tags/idioms/ Recent content in Idioms on Bits, Trades & Systems Hugo en-us Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:15:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2025/10/migrating-a-production-service-from-zap-to-slog-notes-from-the-trenches/ Tue, 07 Oct 2025 09:15:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2025/10/migrating-a-production-service-from-zap-to-slog-notes-from-the-trenches/ log/slog landed in the standard library in Go 1.21, but most production services are still on zap or zerolog. Here is what an actual migration looks like: where slog wins, where zap still wins, and how to move incrementally without a big-bang rewrite. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2025/06/go-1.23-range-over-functions-what-its-for-and-what-it-isnt/ Wed, 18 Jun 2025 09:00:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2025/06/go-1.23-range-over-functions-what-its-for-and-what-it-isnt/ Go 1.23 shipped range over functions — the ability to range over an iterator function rather than a slice, map, or channel. The feature is genuinely useful for a specific class of problems and genuinely misunderstood by engineers reaching for it in places where a slice works better. https://blog.turboawesome.win/2023/01/writing-idiomatic-go/ Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:00:00 +0000 https://blog.turboawesome.win/2023/01/writing-idiomatic-go/ Idiomatic Go is not just stylistic preference — it reflects how the language is designed to be used. The patterns that experienced Go engineers reach for, and why they work better than the alternatives.