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arccy commented on Waitgroups: What they are, how to use them and what changed with Go 1.25 mfbmina.dev/en/posts/wait... · Posted by u/mfbmina

tombert · 12 hours ago

Forgive a bit of ignorance, it's been a bit since I've touched Go, but this looks awfully similar to a Java CountdownLatch [1]. Is this just a glorified Go port of that or am I missing something vital here?

[1] https://docs.oracle.com/javase/8/docs/api/java/util/concurre...

arccy · 11 hours ago

CountDownLatch looks like it can only count down? the go one you can add/remove at will

arccy commented on Show HN: JavaScript-free (X)HTML Includes github.com/Evidlo/xsl-web... · Posted by u/Evidlo

johncolanduoni · a day ago

I believe the spec is at XSLT 3.0 but no browser actually implemented past XSLT 1.0 (not 100% sure - almost nobody cared about this feature last month so hard to find good docs on support). HTML5 and C++ are cut from the same cloth - massive and no reference implementation so full of features that have been “standard” for 10 years but never implemented by anyone.

arccy · a day ago

even outside of browsers barely anything supports XSLT newer than 1.0

arccy commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

stevage · a day ago

> starting at €2.50/month (paid annually)

> I had no issues with paying the equivalent of two coffees a month

Where can you get coffee for €1.25?!

arccy · a day ago

Italy I think

arccy commented on Leaving Gmail for Mailbox.org giuliomagnifico.blog/post... · Posted by u/giuliomagnifico

Sniffnoy · a day ago

That sounds like a problem with the Gmail webmail client -- I don't think Gmail does that when used over IMAP with an external client?

arccy · a day ago

the web client can send plain text, it's only the mobile client that doesn't have an option to do so

arccy commented on Go is still not good blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad

J_Shelby_J · 2 days ago

No one cares more about rust than Gophers.

arccy · 2 days ago

Usually it's the other way around...

arccy commented on Go is still not good blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad

openasocket · 2 days ago

I've worked almost exclusively on a large Golang project for over 5 years now and this definitely resonates with me. One component of that project is required to use as little memory as possible, and so much of my life has been spent hitting rough edges with Go on that front. We've hit so many issues where the garbage collector just doesn't clean things up quickly enough, or we get issues with heap fragmentation (because Go, in its infinite wisdom, decided not to have a compacting garbage collector) that we've had to try and avoid allocations entirely. Oh, and when we do have those issues, it's extremely difficult to debug. You can take heap profiles, but those only tell you about the live objects in the heap. They don't tell you about all of the garbage and all of the fragmentation. So diagnosing the issue becomes a matter of reading the tea leaves. For example, the heap profile says function X only allocated 1KB of memory, but it's called in a hot loop, so there's probably 20MB of garbage that this thing has generated that's invisible on the profile.

We pre-allocate a bunch of static buffers and re-use them. But that leads to a ton of ownership issues, like the append footgun mentioned in the article. We've even had to re-implement portions of the standard library because they allocate. And I get that we have a non-standard use case, and most programmers don't need to be this anal about memory usage. But we do, and it would be really nice to not feel like we're fighting the language.

arccy · 2 days ago

I guess you'd be interested in the arena experiment, though it seems to be currently on pause

arccy commented on Go is still not good blog.habets.se/2025/07/Go... · Posted by u/ustad

apwell23 · 2 days ago

> But yeah the whole error / nil situation still bothers me. I find myself wishing for Result[Ok, Err] and Optional[T] quite often.

I got insta rejected in interview when i said this in response to interview panels question about 'thoughts about golang' .

Like they said, 'interview is over' and showed me the (virtual) door. I was stunned lol. This was during peak golang mania . Not sure what happened to rancherlabs .

arccy · 2 days ago

They probably thought you weren't going to be a good fit for writing idiomatic Go. One of the things many people praise Go for is its standard style across codebases, if you don't like it, you're liable to try and write code that uses different patterns, which is painful for everyone involved.

arccy commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo

delfinom · 5 days ago

WHATWG literally forced W3C to sign a deal and obey their standards. WHATWG is basically Google + Apple + Microsoft directly writing the browser standards. Fixing Microsoft's original mistake of Internet Explorer of not creating a faux committee lol.

arccy · 5 days ago

w3c architecture astronauts have no place dictating standards that they can't implement.

arccy commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo

redwall_hp · 5 days ago

The W3C spec was. But WHATWG and HTML5 represent a coup by the dominant browser corporations (read: Google). The biggest browser dictates the "living standard" and the W3C is forced into a descriptivist role.

The W3C's plan was for HTML4 to be replaced by XHTML. What we commonly call HTML5 is the WHATWG "HTML Living Standard."

arccy · 5 days ago

the old sages in ivory towers handed us a spec engraved in stone and expected is to live by it

no wonder they were sidelined

arccy commented on "Remove mentions of XSLT from the html spec" github.com/whatwg/html/pu... · Posted by u/troupo

bayindirh · 5 days ago

No. The official statement from Brian was “I received a couple of personal e-mails from some credible people who stated that their data belonged to them, so we (I) decided to make it opt-in” (paraphrased).

I spent days in that thread. That uproar was “a bunch of noisy minority which doesn’t worth listening” for them.

arccy · 5 days ago

where is this official statement, I don't think you even managed to get the name right