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Go Programming Patterns
Go best practices for project structure, error handling, goroutines, channels, interfaces, and building maintainable Go applications.
- Difficulty
- intermediate
- Read time
- 1 min read
- Version
- v1.0.0
- Confidence
- established
- Last updated
Quick Reference
Go: errors as values with explicit handling. Use errgroup for goroutine errors. Channels for communication, not shared memory. Small interfaces (io.Reader pattern). Accept interfaces, return structs. context.Context for cancellation.
Use When
- Building Go services and applications
- Implementing concurrent Go programs
- Organizing Go project structure
- Designing Go APIs and packages
Skip When
- Other systems languages (Rust, C++)
- Scripting languages
- Legacy Go 1.x codebases
Go Programming Patterns
Go best practices for project structure, error handling, goroutines, channels, interfaces, and building maintainable Go applications.