Ask HN: Best example codebases written in Go

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Post by igolden » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 2:02 AM UTC

Saw this question asked in 2017, asking again for 2019. What codebases do you think are the best examples of go?

Re: Ask HN: Best example codebases written in Go

#2

Post by bitbatbangboo » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 6:05 AM UTC

#3

Post by switch007 » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 6:54 AM UTC

What do you mean by best?

#4

Post by igolden » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 1:37 PM UTC

switch007 wrote: post #3

What do you mean by best?

Yeah, poor choice of words. Really just looking for codebases that are idiomatic, well written, and fun to read. Inspiration

#5

Post by switch007 » Thu, Aug 22, 2019, 5:34 PM UTC

I'm not a Go expert so hard to judge, but:

github.com/rclone/rclone - Somewhat complex with abstractions, plugins, filesystems, networking, multi-platform support etc

#6

Post by Someone » Sat, Aug 24, 2019, 1:41 PM UTC

Go is self-hosting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(compilers)) and not that old, so the source of the go compiler and its tools (https://go.googlesource.com/go) should be good examples (possibly not of all language features)