Getting started with Go

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  • vscode-go

    Go extension for Visual Studio Code (by golang)

  • The VS Code Go extension has improved a lot over the years. It now auto-installs the delve debugger, and the gopls language server. I did not have to do any additional configuration.

  • delve

    Delve is a debugger for the Go programming language.

  • The VS Code Go extension has improved a lot over the years. It now auto-installs the delve debugger, and the gopls language server. I did not have to do any additional configuration.

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  • shortscale-rs

  • In this case, I was also lucky that the Go strings.Builder standard library package is very similar to the writer pattern I ended up using for Rust.

  • shortscale-go

  • I found it quite easy to port shortscale-rs to shortscale-go.

  • godep

  • Until quite recently, Go did not have built-in package versioning like npm or cargo. This led to incompatibile versioning add-ons, like godep and glide, which made packages with nested dependencies difficult to consume. E.g. see this old INSTALL.md from kubernetes/client-go.

  • glide

    Package Management for Golang (by Masterminds)

  • Until quite recently, Go did not have built-in package versioning like npm or cargo. This led to incompatibile versioning add-ons, like godep and glide, which made packages with nested dependencies difficult to consume. E.g. see this old INSTALL.md from kubernetes/client-go.

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