Go resources

[croaky (Dan Croak)]

The Go Way:

• Go for gophers
• Code is communication. Be articulate. Choose good names. Design simple interfaces. Write precise documentation. Don’t be too clever.
• Less is exponentially more. New features can weaken existing features. Complexity defeats orthogonality. Orthogonality is vital: it enables composition.
• Composition is key. Don’t solve problems by building a thing. Instead, combine simple tools and compose them.
• Design good interfaces. Don’t over-specify. Don’t under-specify. Find the sweet
  spot.
• Simplicity is hard. Invest the time to find the simple solution.

Study (in this order):

• The spec: The Go Programming Language Specification - The Go Programming Language
• Tour of Go: A Tour of Go
• How to Write Go Code: How to Write Go Code - The Go Programming Language
• Effective Go: Effective Go - The Go Programming Language
• Go by Example: https://gobyexample.com/

Practice:

• http://exercism.io/

Documentation:

• http://godoc.org/
• Docs the Go way: Go for gophers

Style:

• Common Go code review comments: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/CodeReviewComments

Vim and Go:

• The standard Go distribution includes a Go syntax file for Vim in go/misc/vim/. Go in Vim
• Vundle-friendly autocompletion, :Format, :Import, GoDoc https://github.com/Blackrush/vim-gocode

Open source projects to be involved in:

• Next-generation Heroku CLI, replacing heroku: https://github.com/heroku/hk
• Next-generation GitHub CLI, replacing hub: GitHub - owenthereal/gh: Fast GitHub command line client (deprecated). gh has been merged into https://github.com/github/hub, see https://github.com/github/hub/issues/475 for more info
• Next-generation process manager, replacing foreman: https://github.com/ddollar/forego exercism.io CLI, https://github.com/exercism/cli

Writing command line interfaces:

• os.Args Go by Example: Command-Line Arguments
• The flag package in standard library: flag package - flag - Go Packages

JSON and Go:

• Go by Example: JSON
• JSON and Go - The Go Programming Language
• http://supermar.in/go-for-a-rubyist/
• json package - encoding/json - Go Packages

Deployment:

• Heroku: GitHub - freeformz/go-on-heroku
• Heroku buildpack: GitHub - heroku/heroku-buildpack-go: Heroku Go Buildpack
• Best practices for Go in production: Peter Bourgon · Go: Best Practices for Production Environments

Help:

• Official mailing list: Redirecting to Google Groups
• #go-nuts on Freenode