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by _y5hn 2215 days ago
Article has very bland design, making it hard to read the embedded code. Comments are light grey on white, not easy to read on some screens.

The Go Tour has no syntax highlighting, but the design on the pages are fit for the purpose of learning the language: https://tour.golang.org/welcome/1

The typical Go-presentations (http://go-talks.appspot.com/github.com/SatishTalim/slides/sa...) tend to be very short and readable, but you'll find www-pages/videos about Go having both syntax highlighting and not, good design and not. Good Go code tend to be short. Many gophers prefer syntax highlighting, so there's no need to force-adopt "opinions" when not strictly necessary or ideal. Alot of Go is very community and stdlib-driven though.

How to do it yourself: https://blog.joshsoftware.com/2014/03/10/how-do-i-create-a-p...