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Questions about Go

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Table of Contents

• Getting started with Go
• Working with Go
• Learning more about Go
• The Go Community
• Using the go toolchain
• Additional Go Programming Wikis
• Online Services that work with Go
• Troubleshooting Go Programs in Production
• Contributing to the Go Project
• Platform Specific Information
• Release Specific Information
• Questions

Getting started with Go

• The Go Tour is the best place to start.
• Effective Go will help you learn how to write idiomatic Go code.
• Go standard library documentation to familiarize yourself with the standard library.
• Use the Go Playground to test out Go programs in your browser.
• Still not convinced? Check out this list of Go Users and a few of their Success stories. We've also assembled a long list of reasons why you should give Go a try.
• Read about the companies which have switched from other languages to Go.

Working with Go

Ready to write some Go code of your own? Here are a few links to help you get started.

• Install and Setup your Environment
  • Start here: Official Installation Documentation
  • If you prefer to install from source, read this first.
  • InstallFromSource - Additional tips on source installs.
  • Windows user? Install and configure Go, Git, and Visual Studio Code for Windows
  • Mac user? How I start - Go - A step-by-step guide to installing Go and building your first web service.
  • Having installation problems? InstallTroubleShooting
  • Make sure you have your $GOPATH environment variable set correctly
    • If you need additional tips on using $GOPATH, go here.
  • MultipleGoRoots - More advanced information on working with multiple go installations and the $GOROOT variable.
• Go IDEs and Editors - Information on how to use your favorite editor with Go.
• Tools for working with Go code - Formatting, linting, vetting, refactoring, navigation, and visualization.
• Finding Go Libraries and Packages
  • Start here: Go open source projects.
  • Search for Go packages: pkg.go.dev
  • Visualization of the Go open-source package graph
• Modules - documentation on the dependency management system built into the Go command, added in 1.11.
• Managing your dependencies - An overview of the tools you can use to manage third-party packages (vendoring).
• Publishing Go Packages as Open Source
  • Getting ready to publish your package? Start here.
  • The Go Checklist - A comprehensive guide for publishing a project.
  • How to layout your GitHub repo to make it easy for other Go programmers to use with the go get command.
  • Go Package, Go - A few recommendations for making Go packages easy to use.

Learning more about Go

Once you have an overview of the language, here are resources you can use to learn more.

• Learning Go - A collection of resources for learning Go - beginner to advanced.
  • Best Practices for a New Go Developer - Insights from Go community members.
  • Server programming - Building web, mobile, and API servers.
  • More on concurrency
  • More on error handling
  • More on testing
  • More on mobile - Android and iOS
• Books - A list of Go books that have been published (ebook, paper).
• Blogs - Blogs about Go.
  • Podcasts - Podcasts and episodes featuring Go.
• Videos, Talks, and Presentations
  • GopherVids (currently unreachable) is a searchable index of videos about Go.
  • GoTalks - A collection of talks from Go conferences and meetups.
  • Livestreams - live interactive Go project streams with members of the community.
  • Screencasts
• Articles - A collection of articles to help you learn more about Go.
• Training - Free and commercial, online, and classroom training for Go.
• University Courses - A list of CS programs and classes using Go.
• Resources for non-English speakers

The Go Community

Here are some of the places where you can find Gophers online. To get a sense of what it means to be a member of the Go community, read Damian Gryski's keynote from the GolangUK 2015 conference or watch Andrew Gerrand's closing keynote from GopherCon 2015.

• Where Gophers hangout online:
  • The Go Forum - An all-purpose discussion forum for the Go community.
  • Gophers Slack Channel - For real-time chat (request membership).
  • Golang News - For curated links about Go Programming.
  • There is also a /r/golang sub-reddit.
  • On Twitter, follow the @golang account and keep tabs on the #golang hashtag.
  • We've also got a landing page on Stack Overflow for Go Q&A.
  • Matrix enthusiasts are invited to join #Go:matrix.org.
  • Discord users are welcome at the Discord Gophers server.
  • Hashnode users talk and write about Go in Hashnode Go community.
• Mailing Lists
  • The mailing list for Go users is golang-nuts - very high traffic.
    • Before you post, check to see if it's already been answered, then read these tips on how to ask a good question
  • For discussions about the core Go open source project, join golang-dev.
  • To get just our release announcements, join golang-announce
• User Groups & Meetups - There are Go Meetups in many cities
  • GoBridge - Volunteers helping underrepresented communities to teach technical skills and to foster diversity in Go.
  • Women Who Go
  • See here for additional information GoUserGroups
  • GoDiscourse - Go Discourse is an open-source Go-based forum from hello world.
• Conferences - A list of upcoming and past Go conferences and major events.
• Companies using Go - A comprehensive list of companies using Go throughout the world.
• Learn more about the Go Gopher images by Renee French.

Using the Go Toolchain

• Start with the standard documentation for the go command available here
• Start here to learn about vendoring.
• See also PackageManagementTools for package management tools.
• Cross Compilation
• Shared libraries and Go (buildmode)
  • Go Shared Libraries - Examples for creating and using shared libraries from Go and Python.
  • Sharing Go Packages with C - by @ralch.
  • Calling Go libraries from Python - by Filippo Valsorda
  • Calling Go libraries from Ruby - by Peter Hellberg
  • Calling Go libraries from Swift - by Jaana Burcu Dogan
  • Build a Ruby Gem with a Go native extension - by @jondot
  • gohttplib - An experiment in using Go 1.5 buildmode=c-shared.
• See the wikis below for additional details:
  • GoGetTools
  • GoGetProxyConfig
  • cgo
  • CompilerOptimizations
  • GccgoCrossCompilation
  • GcToolchainTricks
  • GoGenerateTools
  • Go Tooling Essentials - by Jaana Burcu Dogan

Additional Go Programming Wikis

• Concurrency
  • Timeouts - Abandon async calls that take too long
  • LockOSThread
  • MutexOrChannel - When to use one vs the other
  • RaceDetector - How to detect and fix race conditions
• Working with Databases
  • database/sql - Online tutorial for working with the database/sql package.
  • SQLDrivers
  • SQLInterface
• From other languages
  • Go for Java Programmers
  • Go for C++ Programmers
• Strings
  • GoStrings
  • String Matching
• Comments
• CommonMistakes
• Errors
• GcToolchainTricks
• InterfaceSlice
• Iota
• MethodSets
• PanicAndRecover
• Range
• RateLimiting
• SignalHandling
• SimultaneousAssignment
• SliceTricks
• Switch
• TableDrivenTests

Online Services that work with Go

If you're looking for services that support Go, here's a list to get you started.

• Cloud Computing - Go is well supported by most cloud service providers.
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Azure
  • DigitalOcean
  • GE Predix
  • Google Cloud Platform for Go
  • Heroku
  • IBM Bluemix
  • OpenStack
  • Vscale
  • Aliyun
  • Tencent
  • See here for information on additional providers
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment - Go is well supported by most CI/CD frameworks
• Monitoring/Logging
  • OpsDash - Go-based cluster monitoring platform.
• Package and Dependency Management
  • Gopkg.in is a source for stable Go libraries, provided by Gustavo Niemeyer.

Troubleshooting Go Programs in Production

• Understand the performance of your Go apps using the pprof package
• Heap Dumps
  • heapdump13
  • heapdump14
  • heapdump15-through-heapdump17

Contributing to the Go Project

• Start by reading the Go Contribution Guidelines
• If you'd like to propose a change to the Go project, start by reading the Go Change Proposal Process
  • An archive of design documents is also available
• Go releases happen at ~6-month intervals. See here for more information
• Want to know more about how the Go source X-repositories are structured?
• The Go project requires that all code be reviewed before it is submitted.
  • Read more about our code review practices
  • If you're commenting on code under review, please read these guidelines
• Issues
  • Bug reports and feature requests should be filed using the GitHub issue tracker
  • Want to understand how we handle issues that are reported?
• Project Dashboards
  • Go Builds Dashboard info
  • Performance Dashboard info
  • Download failed logs and debugging

Platform Specific Information

See MinimumRequirements for minimum platform requirements of current Go ports. Considering porting Go to a new platform? Read our porting policy first.

• ChromeOS
• Darwin
• DragonFly BSD
• FreeBSD
• Go on ARM
• Linux
  • Ubuntu
• Mobile
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD
• Plan 9
• Solaris
• Windows
  • WindowsBuild
  • WindowsCrossCompiling
  • WindowsDLLs

Notes:

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