go_references

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Go references

Go references

Learning

Learn page in the official Go wiki
Resources for new Go programmers by Dave Cheney
How do I go about learning Go?
Think Go. Pointers and resources for learning Go
Learning more Go and some computer science by implementing a language
Your basic Go
Interactive Go programming with Jupyter

Language design and usage

FAQ in golang.org
Go has too many ways of declaring variables Rob Pike quoted on StackOverflow
Go Proverbs
A story about simplicity in Go by @rakyll
The Go type system for newcomers by @rakyll
Using contexts to avoid leaking goroutines by @rakyll
Interface pollution in Go by @rakyll
Avoid interface pollution by William Kennedy
Ardan Labs Blog by William Kennedy
Slice tricks (Go Wiki)
Programming-Idioms (several languages)
Don't abuse math.Max / math.Min: starting point for thinking about Go types and culture.
Cleaner Go: static analysis tools with examples.
Go for Object Oriented Programmers by Steve Francia
Go: building on the shoulders of giants and stepping on a few toes by Steve Francia
How I write Go HTTP services after seven years
Go's hidden pragmas
Meet the Go Team (2012)

Gotchas and common mistakes

7 common mistakes in Go and when to avoid them by Steve Francia
Go traps
Common Mistakes (Go Wiki)
Gotchas and common mistakes
50 Shades of Go: Traps, Gotchas, and Common Mistakes for New Golang Devs
Go’s append is not always thread safe

Value vs pointer methods

Functions

Ultimate Guide to Go Variadic Functions
Use of named return values Brad Fitzpatrick, quoted by Andrew Gerrand
Some common traps while using defer
Gotchas of Defer in Go: part I, part II, part III

Advocacy

Criticism

Error handling

Error handling in Upspin by Rob Pike
to, err := human(): wide ranging slides with lots of references at the end.
Seeking Helpful Errors in Go with xerrs
Handling Go Errors (at The New York Times) by Marwan Sulaiman

Testing

Basic testing patterns in Go
Advanced Testing with Go (video) by Mitchell Hashimoto
Interfaces and Composition for Effective Unit Testing in Golang (long post)
5 Advanced Testing Techniques in Go
Writing Table Driven Tests in Go by Dave Cheney – needs update to cover subtests
Google I/O 2014: Testing Techniques by Andrew Gerrand: slides, video, quote about mocks
Chapter 11 – Testing – of The Go Programming Language by Donovan & Kernighan
go-fuzz quick tutorial
Testing with GoMock: A Tutorial

Packages

package check: rich testing for the Go language by Gustavo Niemeyer (unmaintained?)
chaotic: middleware to inject delays and failures into requests processed by the Go HTTP stack.
Google's go-cmp package
Testing in Awesome Go
go-fuzz: randomized testing
GoMock: mocking framework

Variable models

Variable models in Go
Why are maps, slices, and channels references while arrays are values? in the official Go FAQ
Go Slices: usage and internals: by Andrew Gerrand in the official Go Blog.
Understanding slices: with unsafe inspection of slice values
Why are slices sometimes altered when passed by value in Go? by Jon Calhoun
Understanding Slices through Code by Kale Blankenship (vCabbage)
https://tylerchr.blog/golang-arbitrary-memory/

Concurrency

The Why of Go
Context and cancellation of goroutines
Package errgroup provides synchronization, error propagation, and Context cancelation for groups of goroutines working on subtasks of a common task.

Deployment

Integration of a Go service with systemd: socket activation

Packaging & Dependencies

Modules

Introduction to Go Modules intro with practical examples (post suggested by @thepudds1)
The Principles of Versioning in Go by Russ Cox (video suggested by @thepudds1)

Code generation

IoT

Scan For BLE iBeacon Devices With Golang On A Raspberry Pi Zero W
Emgo: Bare metal Go (language for programming embedded systems)
Go on very small hardware (Part1)

Libraries

Standard library

Go Walkthrough

Directories

Interesting Libraries

machinebox/progress: io.Reader/Writer with progress and remaining time estimation
gosuri/uiprogress: render progress bars in terminal applications
golang functions to be included in other projects
ffjson: faster JSON serialization
canvas: HTML5 canvas API in Go

Embedding data in executables

go-bindata embeds binary data in a Go program.
statik embeds a directory of static files into your Go binary to be later served from an http.FileSystem
packr: the simple and easy way to embed static files into Go binaries.

Go and Python

Things from Python I'd miss in Go
Extending Python 3 in Go
Go vs. Python: Learning Go by comparing how you'd do it in Python
Go for Pythonistas by Francesc Campoy Flores
Go and the Zen of Python by Andrew Gerrand (@enneff)
Switching from Python to Go? Here's What You Need To Know

Examples

Proxy in a tweet
Golang examples by Simon Waldherr & contributors
Excellent Open Source Go Projects ranked by code quality
pomo: is a simple CLI for using the Pomodoro Technique.
Wsify: tiny real-time pub/sub server with Redis
Handler vs HandlerFunc
enfile: file encryption in 60 lines

golang, programming language

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