Learning Golang
- Go by Example: General Go syntax and standard library.
- Learn Go with tests: Test Driven Development with Go. A little opinionated (which is all of go tbf). In general, Go’s built in testing library is really solid.
- Go’s Standard Library Docs: The Go team does a great job with their stdlib docs.
More “advanced” Go stuff
Q & A (Obviously my opinion)
What’s a good reason to learn Go if you already know Python?
- Go provides compile-time type checking. (I have seen bugs in production Python code bases that the Go compiler would have caught before the code was even committed).
- You get closer to C performance out of the box. Sure libraries lots of libraries like NumPY are C-bindings, but there is a lot of power in being able to write an add instruction and not have it be 27 lines of asssembly
- A lot of cloud stuff is written in Go (See previous reasons), so interacting with them using Go is super easy.
- Not Object Oriented