Golang Rampup

learning-golang.md

Context

This is for programmers who want to ramp on Go, without resources that reiterate programming fundamentals. This would not be a good list of resources for folks who are learning to program using Go as their first language. Some resources that I dismiss here would be super valuable for newer folks. This is a selection of resources for those who understand programming fundamentals in a different language already.

Advice

1. First steps = Tour of Go
2. Don't waste time on Go Fundamentals-type books - it all lives in tour of Go.
3. Consider joining the Gophers Slack
4. When you need help, the Go Playground allows you make a quick scratch file and share it. Others trying to help can run your code easily this way.

Books

1. Go in Practice: Includes 70 Techniques
2. Concurrency in Go

Quick Resources

1. Go By Example
2. A Tour of Go
3. Organizing Go Code
4. Effective Go

Docs

1. Is this part of stdlib?
   • Packages
2. Go Wiki
3. How to: go mod

Resources about the Go Runtime and Scheduler

Because it's interesting

1. Quick Overview of GoRoutines with "A Complete journey with goroutines"
2. Article on the scheduler
3. Analysis of Go runtime scheduler (white paper)
4. Garbage Collection in Go

Go Gotchas (re: absolute nonsense)

Slices

• Appending to slices does not behave like one would expect
• Make sure anonymous goroutines run with the intended inputs: A Goroutines Gotcha

This is a great list!! Thanks mate 👍