How to start Go like a pro

Presentation of my personal setup and suggestion for preparing a nice Go environment and some other resources in which you can feel comfortable to start bashing out the code.

Lets have a quick lookup:

• Visual Code :
  • On the Visual code install Go extension.
• Go (duh)
  • But more importantly there are a nice of number tools that you would really want to run with Visual Code and Golang. Some of them are of course by default by some added later. They are (Of course check each tool separately if they apply to you):
    • addr2line
      asm
      buildid
      cgo
      compile
      cover
      dist
      doc
      fix
      link
      nm
      objdump
      pack
      pprof
      test2json
      tour
      trace
      vet
  • Didn’t really wish to go in depth on them since you can easily check them in more detail separately in a better source such as Dominik’s list of Go tools or Awesome go where you can also find a lot more necessary and useful information.
• Some of the resources that i found useful while picking up the language and getting up to speed with it:
  • Project based learning
  • Hackr.io tutorials (Really nice collection of the resources)
  • Gitbook (with many examples)
  • Go by Example (Short but sweet)
• It’s good to think about tests
• At some point you will really want to find an easier way for struct-ing your JSON thingies