golang

These are my ramblings, notes and mostly links to useful Go stuff while I am learning the language. (https://github.com/neechbear/gofoo).

General Help

• GoLang.org - https://golang.org/
• Docs - https://golang.org/doc/
• A Tour of Go - https://tour.golang.org
• Playground - https://play.golang.org/
• Help - https://golang.org/help/
• Slack - https://invite.slack.golangbridge.org/
• Rosetta Code - https://rosettacode.org/
• Awesome Go - https://awesome-go.com/
• YouTube Videos - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCO3LEtymiLrgvpb59cNsb8A
  • Hacking with Brad & Andrew
• Go Sub-repository Packages - https://godoc.org/-/subrepo

IDE & Editor Integration

• https://github.com/fatih/vim-go-tutorial
• https://code.visualstudio.com/insiders

Source Control

• https://direnv.net/
• https://gogs.io - A painless self-hosted Git service written in Go.
• https://git-scm.com/downloads/guis/

Unit Testing & Coverage

• https://golang.org/pkg/testing/
• http://blog.alexellis.io/golang-writing-unit-tests/

Databases

• https://github.com/boltdb/bolt - Native Go database based on LMDB
• https://github.com/mattn/go-sqlite3

Publishing & Packaging

• https://blog.filippo.io/shrink-your-go-binaries-with-this-one-weird-trick/ - upw smaller binary sizes
• http://rachbelaid.com/embedding-assets-in-go-project/
• https://blog.filippo.io/shrink-your-go-binaries-with-this-one-weird-trick/
• https://wiki.debian.org/MichaelStapelberg/GoPackaging
• https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PackagingDrafts/Go
• https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Go_package_guidelines
• http://github.com/cpuguy83/go-md2man - Uses blackfriday to process markdown into man pages.
• https://github.com/govend/govend - govend is a simple tool to vendor Go package dependencies. It’s like go get, but for vendoring external or third party packages

Useful Packages

• https://github.com/mattermost/mattermost-bot-sample-golang

UI

• https://github.com/therecipe/qt - Qt binding for Go (Golang) which supports Windows / macOS / Linux / Android / iOS / Sailfish OS / Raspberry Pi.
• https://github.com/jordanorelli/grpc-ui - Example of QT and gRPC usage.

Logging

• https://github.com/sirupsen/logrus

IO & RPC

// Writer that discards writes to a black hole of oblivion.
ioutil.Discard

• https://github.com/jordanorelli/grpc-ui - Example of QT and gRPC usage.

Hardware

• https://periph.io/device/

Interesting

• https://about.gitlab.com/2018/01/23/how-a-fix-in-go-19-sped-up-our-gitaly-service-by-30x/