Instructions for downloading and installing Go.

A brief Hello, World tutorial to get started. Learn a bit about Go code, tools, packages, and modules.

A tutorial of short topics introducing functions, error handling, arrays, maps, unit testing, and compiling.

Introduces the basics of creating and using multi-module workspaces in Go. Multi-module workspaces are useful for making changes across multiple modules.

Introduces the basics of writing a RESTful web service API with Go and the Gin Web Framework.

With generics, you can declare and use functions or types that are written to work with any of a set of types provided by calling code.

Fuzzing can generate inputs to your tests that can catch edge cases and security issues that you may have missed.

Building a simple web application.

This doc explains how to develop a simple set of Go packages inside a module, and it shows how to use the go command to build and test packages.

An interactive introduction to Go in four sections. The first section covers basic syntax and data structures; the second discusses methods and interfaces; the third is about Generics; and the fourth introduces Go's concurrency primitives. Each section concludes with a few exercises so you can practice what you've learned. You can take the tour online or install it locally with:

This will place the tour binary in your GOPATH's bin directory.

A document that gives tips for writing clear, idiomatic Go code. A must read for any new Go programmer. It augments the tour and the language specification, both of which should be read first.

Answers to common questions about Go.

A document that summarizes commonly used editor plugins and IDEs with Go support.

Summarizes tools and methodologies to diagnose problems in Go programs.

A document that describes how Go manages memory, and how to make the most of it.

When your code uses external packages, those packages (distributed as modules) become dependencies.

Main documentation page for Go fuzzing.

Main documentation page for coverage testing of Go applications.

Main documentation page for profile-guided optimization (PGO) of Go applications.

The documentation for the Go standard library.

The documentation for the Go tools.

The official Go Language specification.

A detailed reference manual for Go's dependency management system.

Reference for the directives included in a go.mod file.

A document that specifies the conditions under which reads of a variable in one goroutine can be guaranteed to observe values produced by writes to the same variable in a different goroutine.

Contributing to Go.

A summary of the changes between Go releases.

Introduces the basics of accessing a relational database using Go and the database/sql package in the standard library.

An overview of Go's data access features.

You use the Go database handle to execute database operations. Once you open a handle with database connection properties, the handle represents a connection pool it manages on your behalf.

For SQL operations that might change the database, including SQL INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE, you use Exec methods.

For SELECT statements that return data from a query, using the Query or QueryRow method.

Defining a prepared statement for repeated use can help your code run a bit faster by avoiding the overhead of re-creating the statement each time your code performs the database operation.

sql.Tx exports methods representing transaction-specific semantics, including Commit and Rollback, as well as methods you use to perform common database operations.

Using context.Context, you can have your application's function calls and services stop working early and return an error when their processing is no longer needed.

For some advanced programs, you might need to tune connection pool parameters or work with connections explicitly.

You can avoid an SQL injection risk by providing SQL parameter values as sql package function arguments

You can collect related packages into modules, then publish the modules for other developers to use. This topic gives an overview of developing and publishing modules.

When you develop modules for use by other developers, you can follow a workflow that helps ensure a reliable, consistent experience for developers using the module. This topic describes the high-level steps in that workflow.

When you're developing modules to publish for others to use, you can help ensure that your modules are easier for other developers to use by following the repository conventions described in this topic.

What is the right way to organize the files and directories in a typical Go project? This topic discusses some common layouts depending on the kind of module you have.

A major version update can be very disruptive to your module's users because it includes breaking changes and represents a new module. Learn more in this topic.

When you want to make a module available for other developers, you publish it so that it's visible to Go tools. Once you've published the module, developers importing its packages will be able to resolve a dependency on the module by running commands such as go get.

A module's developer uses each part of a module's version number to signal the version鈥檚 stability and backward compatibility. For each new release, a module's release version number specifically reflects the nature of the module's changes since the preceding release.

Three things that make Go fast, fun, and productive: interfaces, reflection, and concurrency. Builds a toy web crawler to demonstrate these.

One of Go's key design goals is code adaptability; that it should be easy to take a simple design and build upon it in a clean and natural way. In this talk Andrew Gerrand describes a simple "chat roulette" server that matches pairs of incoming TCP connections, and then use Go's concurrency mechanisms, interfaces, and standard library to extend it with a web interface and other features. While the function of the program changes dramatically, Go's flexibility preserves the original design as it grows.

Concurrency is the key to designing high performance network services. Go's concurrency primitives (goroutines and channels) provide a simple and efficient means of expressing concurrent execution. In this talk we see how tricky concurrency problems can be solved gracefully with simple Go code.

This talk expands on the Go Concurrency Patterns talk to dive deeper into Go's concurrency primitives.

See the Go Talks site and wiki page for more Go talks.

Guided tours of Go programs.

The Go Wiki, maintained by the Go community, includes articles about the Go language, tools, and other resources.

See the Learn page at the Wiki for more Go learning resources.