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by marbemac 4119 days ago
I beg to differ. For example, reading the Go source is extremely useful both to learn idiomatic Go, and for reference.
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It's the only language I've used so far where I feel comfortable going straight to the github source and figuring out how a library works instead of searching stackoverflow. In fact, since I've been writing a lot of code in Go, I've noticed my SO usage has dropped considerably.
skimming through the source is one thing, but reading with the intent to thoroughly understand it to a level that you can comfortably modify it is something else.
I've been reading the Docker source lately and I couldn't agree more.