Resources for learning Go (golang)

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We did what we always do when there’s a problem without a clear solution: we waited.
Waiting gives us more time to add experience and understanding of the problem and also more time to find a good solution. - Russ Cox

Learn the philosophy, earn the language.

1. How to Think in Go ("Go Programming") (the original 2010 talk)
2. Effective Go (short, 55 page book)
3. Go by Example (for all your copy pasta needs)
4. Introduction to Go Generics

Go Proverbs: Talk | Printable Poster | Website

Install Go

• https://webinstall.dev/golang

Uses the official Go tar package from golang.org, but also sets GOBIN, and doesn't change any system directories or permissions. TL;DR: Better than brew or the hacky pkg.

Cheat Sheets & Books

• Go by Example: https://gobyexample.com/
• YourBasic Go: https://yourbasic.org/golang/
• Tour of Go: https://tour.golang.org/
• Learn Go with Tests: https://github.com/quii/learn-go-with-tests
• Effective Go: https://go.dev/doc/effective_go

Selected Articles & Talks

How to Think in Go ("Go Programming"): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVhBThJdXc
(the original 2010 talk)

• The Go Book ("Effective Go"): https://golang.org/doc/effective_go
• go mod ("Go with Versions"): https://youtu.be/F8nrpe0XWRg

  "Engineering is Programming across Time and Teams"

• Go Proverbs: Talk | Printable Poster | Website
• Things in Go I never Use: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DVV36uqQ4E
• Practical Go Programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-pPAvqyluI
• How I write Web Services after 8 years of Go: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWBSMsLG8po
• Go Workshop with Dave Cheney: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gi7t6Pl9rxE
• More than you ever wanted to know about errors: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1gwKI2V7YA

Selected Articles:

• Toward Go 2 (great talk on engineering in general): https://blog.golang.org/toward-go2

Google I/O

• Google I/O 2014 talks: https://go.dev/blog/io2014
• Google I/O 2013 talks: https://go.dev/blog/io2013-chat
• Google I/O 2012 talks: https://go.dev/blog/io2012-videos
• Google I/O 2011 talks: https://go.dev/blog/io2011
• Google I/O 2010 talks: https://go.dev/blog/io2010

More on Software Engineering

• CreedsOfCraftsmanship.com

Rob Pike Talks

Title	Venue	Link
Go Programming (2011)	Google I/O	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgVhBThJdXc
Concurrency is not Parallelism (2015)	Heroku	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oV9rvDllKEg
Simplicity is Complicated (2015)	dotGo	https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFejpH_tAHM

And if you're going to write a [JavaScript] program, you wouldn't start with a C++ [or Rust] program and translate it line-by-line and expect to end up with a very well-written [JavaScript] program.

And concepts and the idiom in those languages are different enough that you just end up with a badly-written, non-idiomatic [JavaScript] program.

And the same is true of Go and other languages. If you start with the concepts and idioms from C++ or [Rust] or Python and you try to translate those line-by-line into [JavaScript], you'll just be frustrated with the experience. - Russ Cox, Go Programming, Google I/O

Really Good Extras

• Fyne (Cross-Device Toolkit): https://fyne.io
• GoReleaser (Cross-Platform Release Publisher): https://webinstall.dev/goreleaser
• vim-essentials: https://webinstall.dev/vim-essentials
• vim-go: https://webinstall.dev/vim-go
• Versioning your tools.go: https://stackoverflow.com/a/60383471/151312