Golang

So I have an infinite for loop however I want to use defer to make my intention clearer. Problem is this defer would never run because my function wouldn’t return. This, in turn, would give you memory leak. As neat as it could be, you can use a closure/anonymous function for this. for x := 0; x < 2; x++ { func() { defer fmt.Println(x) }() } Real world use case: So what I’m trying to do is to have an infinite polling using context on AWS SQS to add a timeout if something is wrong with SQS(this can be anything from network errors to aws being down, it can happen)....

This is the first time attending a conference outside my country. It was pretty exciting and scary because I’m going alone but nonetheless it was an amazing experience. I met a couple of interesting people and mostly I think it boosts more my confidence in traveling. The first day was all about learning Go for Intermediate developers by William Kennedy. I learned quite a lot, although I’ve been using Go in work for some time now, I admit that I still have a long way to go....