Is there a repository of best practices when it comes to Go? (project/file structure, decoupling)

austin@programming.dev · 3 years

Not quite what you’re looking for, but Google does have an official style guide which may be slightly helpful

CodeBlooded@programming.dev · 3 years

Apparently this repo is NOT any sort of standard, yet a lot of people are fooled to believe that based on the repo’s account name and the project’s name. I see this mentioned whenever this is asked… just an FYI…

foehammer@programming.dev · 3 years

Some aspects of that repo are actually language features, such as the pkg and internal directories.

CodeBlooded@programming.dev · 3 years

pkg/ isn’t a language feature. It’s just a popular convention that used to be used in the Go standard library.

foehammer@programming.dev · 3 years

The language feature is the internal/ directory, and it’s function of restricting dependencies from external programs.

CodeBlooded@programming.dev · 3 years

That is correct, internal/ is a feature. I was just clarifying that the pkg/ folder isn’t any sort of language feature as you had said it was.

23Ro@programming.dev · 3 years

The folks over at changelog have made a quite nice podcast episode about it on gotime: https://changelog.com/gotime/278

I found the conversation to be quite insightful.

Oliver Lowe@lemmy.sdf.org · 3 years

I often point to Upspin as it’s a real-world Go project by folks closely related to the Go project (including Rob Pike).