Go Programming Language Resources

"Go is not meant to innovate programming theory. It’s meant to innovate programming practice." -- Samuel Tesla

This site aims to collect various information and other resources about the Go programming language designed by Ken Thompson, Rob Pike and Robert Griesemer at Google.

• Development tools useful for Go programming.
• List of known library bindings.
• Libraries in pure Go (in progress).
• Other programs written in Go.
• Ports to new OSes in progress.
• Go Programming Language Custom Google Search Engine.

[Note: Due to Go's current extreme pace of development, at any given time many packages and apps have a distinct chance of not working in the latest Go release. Updating their source is usually painless and can be done using gofmt.]

See Also

• Go Language Community Wiki.
• Planet 5 from Go Space - Blog aggregator of Go-related blogs.
• /r/golang/ - A subreddit dedicated to Go.

Mailing Lists and Discussion Groups

• golang-nuts - Main and 'official' discussion group.
• golang-dev - Official developers mailing list, mostly code review and commit messages.

IRC

#go-nuts in the irc.freenode.org network.

Other Resources

A git mirror of the main hg/mercurial repo can be found at:

git://github.com/tav/go.git

But it is recommended that you use Mercurial instead as it will make it easier to contribute changes back to the main Go repo.

Go in Other Languages

• golang-korea - go 개발언어 관련 자료를 한국어로 번역하는 프로젝트
• Programski jezik Go - Go in Slovenian.
• golang-nuts-jp - Japanese discussion group.
• golang-spanish - Spanish discussion group.
• golang-brasil - Grupo de discussão brasileiro da linguagem Go.
• golang-china - Go 语言中国用户组.
• golang-au - Go in Oz.

User Groups

• Go User Group in Berlin.
• Zurich golang user group.
• Sydney Gophers - the Sydney Go User Group.
• Wellington, NZ Go User Group - See also the GoLang NZ discussion group.

TODO

• Unofficial FAQ.
• Comparisons with other languages.
• Cookbook and list of common idioms.
• Go-powered button.
• POSIX/C++/Java -> Go API translation dictionary.
• Setup a continuous build process with a web interface to see the status of the current tree build and tests (Done by the Google folks as part of the 'godashboard')