▲ 12 ▼ Things about programming I learned with go

mjk.space posted by gopher 2649 days ago

I came across Go a year ago and decided to give it a try. After spending some time with it I can say that it’s definitely a language worth learning. Even if you’re not planning to use it in the long run, playing with it for a while may help you to improve your programming skills in general. In this post I’d like to tell you about five things that I’ve learned with Go and found useful in other languages.

▲ gopher 2649 days ago ▼

Go is not an object-oriented language.
...It’s better to compose than inherit
This depends of course on your definition of Object Oriented, but I think it captures an important truth - Go is in many ways a rejection of modern OO programming, with all the ceremony and hierarchy that it involves, so though this idea is contentious, Go has dumped all of that in favour of composition. Nowadays when people talk about OOP, they really mean objects and inheritance.

Channels and goroutines are powerful way to solve problems involving concurrency
While I think channels are nice, they're also often overused by newcomers to the language.

There is nothing exceptional in exceptions

I do love this about go. Just wish they had completely left out panic, and perhaps had some sugar to make it slightly less painful to return an error (go is becoming infamouse for if err != nil which is a shame).

Contributing

▲ 12 ▼ Things about programming I learned with go

There is nothing exceptional in exceptions