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Welcome to the Go wiki, a collection of information about the Go Programming Language. Awesome Go is another great resource for Go programmers, curated by the Go community.

Table of Contents

• Getting started with Go
• Working with Go
• Learning more about Go
• The Go Community
• Using the go toolchain
• Additional Go Programming Wikis
• Onlines Services that work with Go
• Troubleshooting Go Programs in Production
• Contributing to the Go Project
• Platform Specific Information
• Release Specific Information

Getting started with Go

• The Go Tour is the best place to start.
• Effective Go will help you learn how to write idiomatic Go code.
• Go standard library documentation to familiarize yourself with the standard library.
• Use the Go Playground to test out Go programs in your browser.
• Still not convinced? Check out this list of Go Users and a few of their Success stories. We've also assembled a long list of reasons why you should give Go a try.

Working with Go

Ready to write some Go code of your own? Here are a few links to help you get started.

• Install and Setup your Environment
  • Start here: Official Installation Documentation
  • If you prefer to install from source, read this first.
  • InstallFromSource - Additional tips on source installs.
  • Having installation problems? InstallTroubleShooting
  • Make sure you have your $GOPATH environment variable set correctly
    • If you need additional tips on using $GOPATH, go here.
  • MultipleGoRoots - More advanced information on working with multiple go installations and the $GOROOT variable.
• Go IDEs and Editors - Information on how to use your favorite editor with Go.
• Tools for working with Go code - Formatting, linting, vetting, refactoring.
• Finding Go Libraries & Tools
  • Start by searching godoc.org
  • Then check this list of Go open source projects for additional search tools and curated lists.
• Managing your dependencies - An overview of the tools you can use to manage the libraries that your application depends on.
• Publishing Go Packages as Open Source
  • Getting ready to publish your package? Start here.
  • The Go Checklist - A comprehensive guide for publishing a project.
  • How to layout your GitHub repo to make it easy to for other Go programmers to use with the go get command.
  • Go Package, Go - A few recommendations for making Go packages easy to use.

Learning more about Go

Once you have an overview of the language, here are resources you can use to learn more.

• Learning Go - A collection of resources for learning Go - beginner to advanced.
  • Best Practices for a New Go Developer - Insights from Go community members.
  • Server programming - Building web, mobile, and API servers.
  • The Go Bridge Foundry - A member of the Bridge Foundry family, offering a complete set of free Go training materials with the goal of bringing Go to underrepresented communities.
  • More on concurrency
  • More on error handling
  • More on testing
  • More on mobile - Android and iOS
• Books - A list of Go books that have been published (ebook, paper)
• Videos, Talks and Presentations
  • GopherVids is a searchable index of videos about Go.
  • GoTalks - A collection of talks from Go conferences and meetups.
  • Screencasts
  • Blogs and Podcasts - Go programming blogs and episodes.
• Articles - A collection of articles to help you learn more about Go.
• Training - Free and commercial, online and classroom training for Go.
• University Courses - A list of CS programs and classes using Go.
• Resources for non-English speakers

The Go Community

Here are some of the places where you can find Gophers online. To get a sense of what it means to be a member of the Go community, read Damian Gryski's keynote from the GolankUK 2015 conference or watch Andrew Gerrand's closing keynote from GopherCon 2015.

• Mailing Lists
  • The mailing list for Go users is golang-nuts - very high traffic.
    • Before you post, check to see if it's already been answered, then read these tips on how to ask a good question
  • For discussions about the core Go open source project, join golang-dev.
  • To get just our release announcements, join golang-announce
• Chat, discussion and other forums
  • We have a Gophers Slack Channel. Requires you to request membership here
  • For IRC fans there is #go-nuts on irc.freenode.net which is indexed here.
  • There is also a /r/golang sub-reddit.
  • On Twitter, follow the @golang account and keep tabs on the #golang hashtag.
  • We've also got a landing page on Stack Overflow for Go Q&A.
• User Groups & Meetups - There are Go Meetups in many cities
  • See here for additional information GoUserGroups
• Conferences - A list of upcoming and past Go conferences and major events.
• A comprehensive list of companies using Go: Go Users
• Learn more about the Go Gopher images by Renee French.

Using the go toolchain

• Start with the standard documentation for the go command available here
• Using the Go 1.5 GO15VENDOREXPERIMENT
  • Start here for the official documentation.
  • Overview with examples by @freeformz.
  • See also PackageManagementTools for additional details.
• Shared libraries and Go (buildmode)
  • Go Shared Libraries - Examples for creating and using shared libraries from Go and Python.
  • gohttplib - An experiment in using Go 1.5 buildmode=c-shared.
  • Sharing Golang Packages to C - A tutorial by @ralch.
  • Calling Go libraries from Python - by Filippo Valsorda
  • Calling Go libraries from Ruby - by Peter Hellberg
• See the wikis below for additional details:
  • GoGetTools
  • GoGetProxyConfig
  • cgo
  • CompilerOptimizations
  • GccgoCrossCompilation
  • GcToolchainTricks
  • GoGenerateTools

Additional Go Programming Wikis

• Why Go doesn't Support Generics: A Summary of Go Generics Discussions - Start here before you join the debate.
• Concurrency
  • Timeouts - Abandon async calls that take too long
  • LockOSThread
  • MutexOrChannel - When to use one vs the other
  • RaceDetector - How to detect and fix race conditions
• Working with Databases
  • database/sql - Online tutorial for working with the database/sql package.
  • TUGTBDDAwG - Guide to building data driven apps.
  • SQLDrivers
  • SQLInterface
• From other languages
  • Go for Java Programmers
  • Go for C++ Programmers
• Strings
  • GoStrings
  • String Matching
• Comments
• CommonMistakes
• Errors
• GcToolchainTricks
• Hashing
• HttpFetch
• HttpStaticFiles
• InterfaceSlice
• Iota
• MethodSets
• PanicAndRecover
• Range
• RateLimiting
• Rationales
• SendingMail
• SignalHandling
• SimultaneousAssignment
• SliceTricks
• Switch
• TableDrivenTests

Online Services that work with Go

If you're looking for services that support Go, here's a list to get you started.

• Cloud Computing - Go is well supported on most cloud service providers.
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Azure
  • Digital Ocean
  • Google Cloud Platform and App Engine for Go
  • Heroku
  • See here for information on additional providers
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment - Go is well supported by most CI/CD frameworks
• Monitoring/Logging
  • DeferPanic - Dedicated Go application performance monitoring.
• Package and Dependency Management
  • Gopkg.in is a source for stable Go libraries, provided by Gustavo Niemeyer.
  • Stable Lib is a service that provides stable Go packages with long-term support.

Troubleshooting Go Programs in Production

• Understand the performance of you Go apps using the pprof package
• Heap Dumps
  • heapdump13
  • heapdump14

Contributing to the Go Project

• Start by reading the Go Contribution Guidelines
• If you'd like to propose a change to the Go project, start by reading the Go Change Proposal Process
  • An archive of design documents is also available
• Go releases happen on ~6 month intervals. See here for more information
• Want to know more about how the Go source sub-repositories are structured?
• The Go project requires that all code be reviewed before it is submitted.
  • Read more about our code review practices
  • If you're commenting on code under review, please read these guidelines
• Issues
  • Bug reports and feature requests should be filed using the GitHub issue tracker
  • Want to understand how we handle issues that are reported?
• Project Dashboards
  • Go Builds Dashboard info
  • Performance Dashboard info

Platform Specific Information

• Considering porting Go to a new platform? Read our porting policy first
• Mobile
• Ubuntu
• Windows
  • WindowsBuild
  • WindowsCrossCompiling
  • WindowsDLLs
  • WindowsSupport
• GoArm
• ChromeOS
• NetBSD
• OpenBSD
• FreeBSD
• Haiku
• NativeClient

Release Specific Information

• Go1point1Gotchas
• OlderVersions

Notes:

• Please refrain from changing the title of the wiki pages, as some of them might be linked to from golang.org or other websites.