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"Back where I belong" by Carl Jones

Long Windows paths (UNC paths) in Go

klauspost 0 17th September 2015 Portability, Programming

Lately I have been working a bit with various backup/file tools written in Go, mainly rclone and restic. I noticed that both of them has issues when dealing with long Windows paths, which is quite unfortunate for backup utilities, so I figured that might be a good thing to cover on my blog. This issue…

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"Colorful windows" by Dino Quinzani

How to make your Go Applications easy to port

klauspost 0 18th August 2015 Go, Programming

Go is really well suited for cross-platform work. My main development environment is Windows, but I always deploy to Linux-based systems. Therefore I naturally try to avoid things that will get me into trouble.   My attitude towards cross-platform support is that if you consider yourself a serious developer, your code should at least compile on…

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