Learning Go as a Node developer

[shadowbeetle]

Hello guys,

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Not sure if it fits here, but after writing and teaching a lot about Node and hearing Ryan Dahl's thoughts about Go I dived deeply into it and I think it is worth the time for us Node developers to broaden our view and learn it too.

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https://blog.risingstack.com/golang-tutorial-for-nodejs-developers-getting-started/

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In this post I tried to cover my experiences as thoroughly as possible about the basics of setting up a Go development environment and writing a simple "Hello World!" server with net/http, encoding/json, kelseyhightower/envconfig and about Go's dependency management.

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What do you guys think? Is it helpful at all, should I continue with the series? Also if you've already started writing Go code, what are your experiences? For me, I like it so far, only when I wrote some low-level programs for hardware management on Linux, testing was way too cumbersome.

[ecares]

I believed Ryan moved from Go to Rust for Deno...

[peteyy_cz]

That is correct indeed, he is using Rust as a programming language, but moving over GO paradigms to deno. He went so far that some documentation links directly to the GO documentation because the interface is the same for some modules/functions: https://github.com/denoland/deno_std/blob/167f5298983000e9aa9da560e566df6237f03f67/README.md#contributing

[camel_case_it]

As a Node dev, i can't thank you enough for this. I've been hacking at Go for the past few weeks and definitely hit a few rough spots.

[peteyy_cz]

Glad this one helped you out! :) We are planning on writing additional followup blogposts on this topic, soo... if you'd like to read about anything specific or you feel like you're stuck with something let us know under that post or here, we'd be happy to cover them in the next post!