Go: Google's Plan9 refugees are staging a breakout

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etcetera08: Sep 11, 2008

Go rules and my company moved to an exclusively Go backend from some old Python and it's been great. Slightly better performance than Python, much easier deployment, static typing, first class testing, good docs, solid std lib. If it had not horrible package management and fewer bugs on OS X I'd recommend it unreservedly. Oh, and generics.

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etcetera08: Sep 11, 2008

My Rhythmic Crotch posted:

Another oddity: http://play.golang.org/p/BMtgxj-0Af

Unmarshaling any number always gives me a float64

Is there a way to force encoding/decoding an integer? I'm reading the json encoder but not seeing it.

json doesn't have the concept of other number types. http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#Unmarshal
You can, however, force it to use Numbers. http://golang.org/pkg/encoding/json/#Decoder.UseNumber

# ¿ Apr 30, 2014 01:13

etcetera08: Sep 11, 2008

Deus Rex posted:

This thread ought to "go" ... back to GBS that is!

JSON's only concern with numbers is their parse; their representation upon deserialization is an implementation decision. An implementation typically uses 64-bit floats only for compatibility with the lowest common denominator prosumer of JSON: Javascript.

OBVIOUSLY I meant "encoding/json" when I said "json," hence the proceeding link.

Thanks for the clarification.

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