The Go team 9 June 2020 When the Go project began, “an overarching goal was that Go do more to help the working programmer by enabling tooling, automating mundane tasks such as code formatting, and removing obstacles to working on large code bases” (Go FAQ). Today, more than a decade later, we continue to be guided by that same goal, especially as it pertains to the programmer’s most critical tool

Joe Tsai, Damien Neil, and Herbie Ong 2 March 2020 Introduction We are pleased to announce the release of a major revision of the Go API for protocol buffers, Google’s language-neutral data interchange format. Motivations for a new API The first protocol buffer bindings for Go were announced by Rob Pike in March of 2010. Go 1 would not be released for another two years. In the decade since that fi

Celebrating 10 years of Go makes me think back to early November 2009, when we were getting ready to share Go with the world. We didn’t know what kind of reaction to expect, whether anyone would care about this little language. I hoped that even if no one ended up using Go, we would at least have drawn attention to some good ideas, especially Go’s approach to concurrency and interfaces, that could

Introduction Go is a new language. Although it borrows ideas from existing languages, it has unusual properties that make effective Go programs different in character from programs written in its relatives. A straightforward translation of a C++ or Java program into Go is unlikely to produce a satisfactory result—Java programs are written in Java, not Go. On the other hand, thinking about the prob

Jean de Klerk 21 August 2019 Introduction This post is part 2 in a series. Part 1 — Using Go Modules Part 2 — Migrating To Go Modules (this post) Part 3 — Publishing Go Modules Part 4 — Go Modules: v2 and Beyond Part 5 — Keeping Your Modules Compatible Note: For documentation, see Managing dependencies and Developing and publishing modules. Go projects use a wide variety of dependency management s

Tyler Bui-Palsulich and Eno Compton 19 March 2019 Introduction This post is part 1 in a series. Part 1 — Using Go Modules (this post) Part 2 — Migrating To Go Modules Part 3 — Publishing Go Modules Part 4 — Go Modules: v2 and Beyond Part 5 — Keeping Your Modules Compatible Note: For documentation on managing dependencies with modules, see Managing dependencies. Go 1.11 and 1.12 include preliminary

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code

Tips for writing clear, performant, and idiomatic Go code