Thirteen Years of Go

• colima

  110 16,793 8.2 Go

  Container runtimes on macOS (and Linux) with minimal setup

> Docker and corresponding tools. https://github.com/abiosoft/colima

Neither sound like "applications I really enjoy". More like applications you suffer.

> And many others, really.

How about examples?

• gobyexample

  108 6,876 7.9 Go

  Go by Example

https://gobyexample.com/ is one of the best interactive "courses".

• WorkOS

  workos.com sponsored

  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• Cargo

  263 11,958 10.0 Rust

  The Rust package manager

  

Seriously. I have held back on saying anything negative about Rust for the last 13 years but I will say this now: the type inference in Rust combined with its expressive type system can make sophisticated programs a nightmare to follow. My experience was with extensively reading the cargo codebase; trying to figure out what the resulting type of an expression that maps/filters/collects over other complex expressions is a chore.

For example, I find it very hard to figure out what the type of public_dependencies is in this declaration: https://github.com/rust-lang/cargo/blob/8fbc8459d59f3acecdb6...

• go

  2,068 119,564 10.0 Go

  The Go programming language

  

The number of flags required to statically compile stuff when using cgo is indeed a bit complex (if you're not using cgo it will always statically compile), partly because interfacing with C is a bit complex.

There is an issue to make it easier[1], and doesn't seem too hard to find more information about it[2].

More general: I think I've seen every language described as "badly documented" at this point. Someone new comes to the language, knows what they want to do, gets stuck/frustrated because it's a little bit outside the "mainstream path", and calls it "badly documented".

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26492

[2]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=go+compile+static

• duckduckgo-locales

  2,077 94 0.0 Perl

  Translation files for <a href="https://duckduckgo.com"> </a>

  

The number of flags required to statically compile stuff when using cgo is indeed a bit complex (if you're not using cgo it will always statically compile), partly because interfacing with C is a bit complex.

There is an issue to make it easier[1], and doesn't seem too hard to find more information about it[2].

More general: I think I've seen every language described as "badly documented" at this point. Someone new comes to the language, knows what they want to do, gets stuck/frustrated because it's a little bit outside the "mainstream path", and calls it "badly documented".

[1]: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/26492

[2]: https://duckduckgo.com/?q=go+compile+static

• lazygit

  145 45,525 9.8 Go

  simple terminal UI for git commands

• go101

  41 5,385 7.3 HTML

  An up-to-date (unofficial) knowledge base for Go programming self learning

overall balance and flexibility: https://github.com/go101/go101/wiki/The-main-sell-point-of-G...

• InfluxDB

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• exembed

  5 30 1.8 Go

  Go Embed experiments

It's a bit more advanced than what Rust macros provided last time I checked. You can shove whole directories in there and then traverse them or serve as static resources with pretty much one line of code.

Random blog post with a few examples:

https://blog.carlmjohnson.net/post/2021/how-to-use-go-embed/

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