A brief introduction to Go for programmers who haven't used Go before: Why use it? The standard library. And the language itself.

This small site is oriented to developers learning golang that want to see the unexpected, at least for a newcomer, behaviors in the language.

Go is a lovely little programming language designed by smart people you can trust and continuously improved by a large and growing open-source community.

Go is meant to be simple, but sometimes the conventions can be a little hard to grasp. I’d like to show you how I start all of my Go projects, and how to use Go’s idioms. Let’s build a backend service for a web app.