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Go is not an easy language
Go is not an easy programming language. It is simple in many ways: the syntax is simple, most of the semantics are simple. But a language is more than just syntax; it’s about doing useful stuff. And doing useful stuff is not always easy in Go.
Turns out that combining all those simple features in a way to do something useful can be tricky. How do you remove an item from an array in Ruby?
list.delete_at(i)
. And remove entries by value?list.delete(value)
. Pretty easy, yeah?In Go it’s … less easy; to remove the index
i
you need to do…
https://www.arp242.net/go-easy.html
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