xdefrag/learn-go

An opinionated list of resources for learning Go.

Learn Go

Moved to gemini://xdefrag.dev/learn-go.gmi

Must read

• How to Write Go Code
• A Tour of Go
• Effective Go
• Go by Example
• Go blog
  • Using Go Modules
  • Working with Errors in Go 1.13
  • Testable Examples in Go
  • Package names
• Dave Cheney’s blog
  • Use internal packages to reduce your public API surface
  • Eliminate error handling by eliminating errors
  • Don’t just check errors, handle them gracefully
  • Let’s talk about logging
  • Practical Go
• Rob Pike’s blog
  • Self-referential functions and the design of options
  • Error handling in Upspin
• Go Patterns
  • Decorator
  • Observer
  • Semaphore
  • Parallelism
  • Timing
  • Functional Options
• Go Advice
• The Uber Go Style Guide
• Code Review Comments

Must watch

• Rob Pike - Simplicity is Complicated
• Rob Pike - Concurrency Is Not Parallelism
• Rob Pike - Go Proverbs
• Brian Ketelsen - Go best practices
• Peter Bourgon - Best Practices for Industrial Programming
• Mat Ryer - Things in Go I Never Use
• Steve Francia - 7 common mistakes in Go and when to avoid them
• Mat Ryer - Building APIs
• Filippo Valsorda - Asynchronous Networking Patterns
• Chew Choon Keat - TDD for those who don’t need it
• Pawel Slomka - Documenting Go Code with Beautiful Tests
• Mat Ryer - The Art of Testing
• Dave Cheney - Absolute Unit Test
• Mitchell Hashimoto - Advanced Testing with Go

Must use

• GolangCI Lint or vet + goimports
• Testify (assert package only) or IS
• GoMock
• Delve or GDB
• GoTests
• Gore