Thanks. Filtering does not cover expiry, but it does cover shortlinks, longlinks, and notes. Making expiry work will make the filtering inefficient for little benefit, since the expiry times are stored as UNIX timestamps in the database.

Fair enough. I’m not a professional programmer, so I guess I won’t understand your frustration with long term maintenance of Go code. I do agree that it can be unnecessarily verbose. Writing something as simple as an http server takes a long time. Also, the dependency management sucks. It can’t seem to decide if it wants to be declarative or not.

I do like that it’s dead simple though, and that the standard library has most of the basic stuff. I’ve mostly replaced the need for Python with Go, for small CLI apps. Nowadays, I only use Python when I have to use some specific library, mostly for mathematical computing.

Yes. IIRC, the flavor that I used was MSWLogo.

I don’t think there’s an std-way of doing it, but the Rust ecosystem has this thing where people usually settle around one library. In this case, it is tokio. Afaik, most async stuff is done using tokio. What little async I’ve used, it’s been using tokio or some library like actix-web that uses tokio under the hood.

Also, side note, I never understood the idea of why golang is ugly. I think it’s fine, except for maybe the repeated if err != nil guards. Those are ugly. I wish it used additive types for error handling.

Relevant.

I’ve always preferred the functional approach to programming, so OOP never really intrigued me. That’s one of the reasons why I never liked C++ or Java, but instantly fell in love with Rust. It lets me do a lot of functional style programming, while still being somewhat practical. (I’m looking at you, Haskell.)

My first ever big boy language was C++ (after Basic, and Logo, does anyone remember that lol). I was in middle school, tried to self-learn from learncpp.com, only to realize that I had mostly learned C, with cin-cout instead of printf-scanf. So I just decided to migrate to C. Nowadays, I mostly code in Rust, Go, and Python. But my experience with C has been extremely helpful. Can’t say the same about C++ though.

Thanks. Hope you like it.

Thanks. Just a small correction. The API isn’t really REST, it’s REST-ish but probably closer to JSON-RPC.