No offense to the author here ... but I need to vent some personal frustration. Every tutorial goes through these exact same motions for learning a new language. It sucks! Programmers can figure out what a variable is, or how to use an array or a map. Those things really don't change a whole lot between languages. What about how to import code from different modules? Best practices for organizing code? How your language differs from its competitors as far as usage. Testing practices (which often influence how your code is written), etc...
Learning Elixir was tough for me until I found Dave Thomas' "Elixir for Programmers" where he skipped all of the basic stuff that every programmer is assumed to know and went right to what makes Elixir unique and how to leverage it correctly. (https://codestool.coding-gnome.com/courses/elixir-for-progra...)
I have been hunting for the same thing for the Go language for years because frankly I haven't been able to grok the appeal. I am hoping to find a 'Go for Programmers' one day. I asked on Reddit a while back and was pretty much handed the "what are variables" document.
Seconded. Especially for Go, because it's mostly a lowest common denominator of language features it's not hard to write the code itself. The problem is that the module system is different and had plenty of changes along the years, What I would really like is an up to date "learn how to handle Go project in 30 minutes" tutorial (initialize new project with all best practices, add modules, publish, fork&clone&submit&pr including 3rd party submodules, test, CI, profile, debug).
>What I would really like is an up to date "learn how to handle Go project in 30 minutes"
1. git init
2. git remote add %something%
3. go mod init %name_of_your_module% (where in most common case name is your repo address without the https part)
4. https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout - this repo has the default project structure. Each subfolder has README that describes the purpose of the folder
5. go get -u github.com/gin-gonic/gin to add gin (web lib) for your project. Same for any other package. The will be added to your go.mod and go.sum files
5.1 import "github.com/gin-gonic/gin" in your code to use gin
5.2 package may have more than one major version (tag). If you want to use package at latest tag 2 - you add '/v2' when you 'go get' the package (i.e. go get -u github.com/gin-gonic/gin/v2)
6. git commit && git push to publish
7. Not sure what to you mean by 'fork&clone&submit&pr including 3rd party submodules'. You may use vendoring but in most cases you don't need it as you have your dependencies in your go.mod && go.sum files. You may want to read more about vendoring and gomodproxy though.
8. Testing is pretty easy but I guess you want and article about best practices? I won't post any link as I find the topic as too controversial regardless of the language\stack
9. CI - not sure that does this have to do with the language
10. haven't done much profiling or debugging to fill you in.
> https://github.com/golang-standards/project-layout
I was almost with you but please don't share that repo. It's a terrible layout and the docs aren't accurate. The issues are full of Go community folk saying it's misleading and looks official but isn't.