Golang Commonplace Book - May 2024

My personal Go refresher

How to Learn Go - May 2022

First Steps

• For new programmers:

  
  Alex Edwards' Let's Go and Let's Go Further teach core patterns, project structure and API development. They're the best introduction for a new programmer.
  
  
• For experienced programmers:

  • Tour of Go is the best place to get a feel for the language. A few hours at most.
  • Pick one:
    • Matt Holiday’s video course is in-depth and covers a lot of ground.
    • Learn Go with Tests
  • Effective Go

What’s next?

• Cloud Native Go - Titmus
• 100 Go Mistakes
• Style guides by Uber and Google
• Writing an Interpreter in Go & Writing a Compiler in Go - Thorsten Ball

Make a server, but not some demo thing, go all the way.

About the Go Compiler - Jan 2018

edit: a recent discussion which will shed much more light on this https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/1994ols/the_go_compiler_needs_to_be_smarter_2020/