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Information About Go

• The Go official website: https://golang.org
  • which provides access to the documentation, including the
    • Go Programming Language Specification,
    • standard packages,
    • and the like.
  • There are also tutorials on
    • how to write Go and how to write it well, and
    • a wide variety of online text and video resources that will be valuable complements to this book.
• The Go Blog at https://blog.golang.org
  • publishes some of the best writing on Go,
  • with articles on
    • the state of the language,
    • plans for the future,
    • reports on conferences, and
    • in-depth explanations of a wide variety of Go-related topics.
• The Go Playground at https://play.golang.org
  • One of the most useful aspects of online access to Go (and a regrettable limitation of a paper book) is the ability to run Go programs from the web pages that describe them. This functionality is provided by the Go Playground.
  • and may be embedded within other pages, such as the home page at ‘golang.org’ or the documentation pages served by the godoc tool.
  • The Playground makes it convenient to perform simple experiments to check one’s understanding of syntax, semantics, or library packages with short programs, and in many ways takes the place of a ‘read-eval-print loop’ (‘REPL’) in other languages. Its persistent URLs are great for sharing snippets of Go code with others, for reporting bugs or making suggestions.
• The Go Tour at https://tour.golang.org
  • Built atop the Playground, the Go Tour is a sequence of short interactive lessons on the basic ideas and constructions of Go, an orderly walk through the language.
• Go is open source, found at https://golang.org/pkg
  • you can read the code for any type or function in the stan- dard library online.
  • The same code is part of the downloaded distribution. Use this to figure out how something works, or to answer questions about details, or merely to see how experts write really good Go.
• Emacs go-mode is at https://github.com/dominikh/go-mode.el
  • It is a complete rewrite of the go-mode that shipped with ‘Go 1.0.3’ and before, and was part of ‘Go 1.1’ until ‘Go 1.3’. Beginning with ‘Go 1.4’, editor integration will not be part of the Go distribution anymore, making this repository the canonical place for go-mode.