[37ef_ced3]

Read the Go standard library, especially the parts written by Russ Cox. The parts written by Griesemer are less pleasant, no offense to him

But some of Go's language decisions only become clear once you've written a lot of Go

For example, the "var name = expr" declaration form seems unnecessary in light of the short ":=" form but it is in the language to allow indented declaration blocks like this (where some variables get an initial value and some get just a type):

  var (
      text []byte
      last int
      more = true
  )
  ...

I've been using Go for 3 years and the more Go I write, the more I appreciate it. Enjoy

[vegancap]

I second Russ Cox's contributions to the stdlib. I recently went to check which version of Go the embedded API was added, and noticed a PR by Russ, I glanced through it and saw some really impressive and thoughtful code. I've made a point since to go back and look through more!