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Earlier this week, I had the privilege of attending to an sneak preview of Andrew Gerrand’s talk “Stupid Gopher Tricks”, which he should be presenting at the Golang UK conference as I publish these lines. It’s a great talk about lesser-known Go features. I won’t spoil his talk here, you should instead attend the next conference if you can or check out the slides once they become available. But the

TL;DR Golang was explicitly engineered to thrive in projects built by large groups of programmers with different skill levels, and there is no larger such group than the open source community. Absolutely everything in life are trade-offs, the first law of thermodynamics makes sure of that, and programming languages are no exceptions. Go’s trade-offs are not unique, but it’s a good set of trade-off

To inaugurate this attempt of blog, I’ll talk about gorename a small but incredibly useful tool I just recently discovered thanks to Andrew Gerrand’s dotGo 2014 talk. Gorename’s purpose is simple yet extremely useful, it allows us to safely rename constants, functions, variables and types in Go code. Gorename is code-aware, which means you don’t need to worry about renaming the wrong thing or unin