Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Robert Griesemer, for the Go team 28 January 2020 Status We are close to the Go 1.14 release, planned for February assuming all goes well, with an RC1 candidate almost ready. Per the process outlined in the Go 2, here we come! blog post, it is again the time in our development and release cycle to consider if and what language or library changes we might want to include for our next release, Go 1.

Katie Hockman 29 August 2019 We are excited to share that our module mirror, index, and checksum database are now production ready! The go command will use the module mirror and checksum database by default for Go 1.13 module users. See proxy.golang.org/privacy for privacy information about these services and the go command documentation for configuration details, including how to disable the use

David Chase 21 March 2019 Introduction Go 1.11 and Go 1.12 make significant progress toward allowing developers to debug the same optimized binaries that they deploy to production. As the Go compiler has become increasingly aggressive in producing faster binaries, we’ve lost ground in debuggability. In Go 1.10, users needed to disable optimizations entirely in order to have a good debugging experi

The Go Cloud Development Kit team at Google 4 March 2019 Introduction Last July, we introduced the Go Cloud Development Kit (previously referred to as simply “Go Cloud”), an open source project building libraries and tools to improve the experience of developing for the cloud with Go. We’ve made a lot of progress since then – thank you to early contributors! We look forward to growing the Go CDK c

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Robert van Gent 9 October 2018 Overview The Go team recently announced the open source project Go Cloud, with portable Cloud APIs and tools for open cloud development. This post goes into more detail about Wire, a dependency injection tool used in Go Cloud. What problem does Wire solve? Dependency injection is a standard technique for producing flexible and loosely coupled code, by explicitly prov

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Steve Francia 23 May 2018 In November 2015, we introduced the Go Code of Conduct. It was developed in a collaboration between the Go team members at Google and the Go community. I was fortunate to be one of the community members invited to participate in both drafting and then enforcing the Go Code of Conduct. Since then, we have learned two lessons about limitations in our code of conduct that re

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Russ Cox 26 March 2018 Introduction Eight years ago, the Go team introduced goinstall (which led to go get) and with it the decentralized, URL-like import paths that Go developers are familiar with today. After we released goinstall, one of the first questions people asked was how to incorporate version information. We admitted we didn’t know. For a long time, we believed that the problem of packa

Steve Francia 26 February 2018 Thank you This post summarizes the result of our 2017 user survey along with commentary and insights. It also draws key comparisons between the results of the 2016 and 2017 survey. This year we had 6,173 survey respondents, 70% more than the 3,595 we had in the Go 2016 User Survey. In addition, it also had a slightly higher completion rate (84% → 87%) and a higher re

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code