Go Proverbs

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• Go Engineering

Overview

• Don't communicate by sharing memory, share memory by communicating.
• Concurrency is not parallelism.
• Channels orchestrate; mutexes serialize.
• The bigger the interface, the weaker the abstraction.
• Make the zero value useful.
• interface{} says nothing.
• gofmt's style is no one's favorite, yet gofmt is everyone's favorite.
• A little copying is better than a little dependency.
• Syscall must always be guarded with build tags.
• Cgo must always be guarded with build tags.
• Cgo is not Go.
• With the unsafe package there are no guarantees.
• Clear is better than clever.
• Reflection is never clear.
• Errors are just values.
• Don't just check errors, handle them gracefully.
• Design the architecture, name the components, document the details.
• Documentation is for users.
• Don't panic.