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The Best Golang Blogs

Karl L. Hughes on February 03, 2021

Go recently turned eleven, so you can imagine how much the language and its ecosystem have evolved through the years. A strongly typed language, it...
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Stefan Wuthrich

Great List!
Here you go ;-) twitter.com/golangch/status/135752...

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Andrew W. Phillips

I've been looking for a good Go blog for 2 years, without success. For years I followed Bill Kennedy (Ardan) and Dave Cheney's wonderful blogs. Unfortunately, Dave has disappeared from Go scene in last few years and the Ardan blogs are of less interest nowadays (Bill talks about block-chain which I am not interested in and there is a mish-mash of other Ardan bloggers now).

I've tried a few Medium blogs and they are usually poorly written, plagiarised or simply wrong. Your first recommendation (Blanchon's "A Journey With Go") is well written but I read 2 of his articles on DOS attacks which were very short and had no Go code whatsoever and then I was asked to pay to see any more. I'm not impressed by Medium at all.

Your second recommendation (Berger's Applied Go) seems good but most of the topics I'm not that interested in. A Go blog should be about better ways to code, additions to the language, common gotchas, etc - which this does not have much of.

The 5th recommendation (DEV's Go tag) is just a weird medley of stuff written by various people. Some of it seems OK, but most not.

The 6th (Digital Ocean) is just there to promote their paid products. There are some introductory tutorials which may be good, but that is not what I want from a blog.

The 7th (Eli Bendersky) is much better and I'll look at it thoroughly later. My only complaint is that it covers many esoteric areas which I am not interested in. And it's a bit hard to find the useful Go stuff.

(Sorry, but I don't have time to look at the others in your list.)

Perhaps I was spoilt by years of reading Dave Cheney's blog but can anyone recommend something that comes close? Ie, well-written, interesting, relevant and insightful.

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Sabbir Alam

Bookings and Reservations
This is the repository for my bookings and reservations projects.

  • Built go version 1.20
  • Uses the chi router
  • Uses alex edwards SCS session management library
  • Uses nosurf
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tomjamtin

Unfortunately the "Go Web Example" video course does not follow minimal reproducible practice.

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Firdavs Kasymov

Good article, thanks for writing it up.

Also, I would like to add here in the comment for future Gophers to have a look at the following link:

github.com/avelino/awesome-go

It will list all the wonderful GoLang packages and external libraries which you can use for your project.

Happy Coding :).

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artydev

Thank you

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Lukas Gaucas

What about Golangdocs, opinions ? :)

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Andrew W. Phillips

I'm not sure how it compares to others in the list (except for Dave Cheney's and Bill Kennedy's blogs which are the best) but I looked at Golangdocs and it was full of mistakes and half-truths.

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Mrityunjaya Prajapati

Really a great list for any new or experience Go Programmer. Good Job!

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Cara Null

Wooow. Thank you for this list.