How to convert old tutorials that rely on “go get”?

• gorun

  5 935 1.5 Go

  gorun is a tool enabling one to put a "bang line" in the source code of a Go program to run it, or to run such a source code file explicitly. It was created in an attempt to make experimenting with Go more appealing to people used to Python and similar languages which operate most visibly with source code.

It's great for quick iteration and other stuff where you want to build and run in one go. It's even been augmented to turn Go into a scripting-style language https://github.com/erning/gorun

• mux

  86 17,948 2.6 Go

  Discontinued A powerful HTTP router and URL matcher for building Go web servers with 🦍

  

An executable is like the windows PE format (or ELF on Linux). A module is a code library e.g. https://github.com/gorilla/mux

• InfluxDB

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• golang-standards/project-layout

  195 45,852 6.4 Makefile

  Standard Go Project Layout

  

here's an example of their structure https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout (I did not like their "cmd" directory for programs, I think it's not intuitive so I didn't do that one, commands are commands, programs are programs, binaries are binary programs)

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