Effective Go

Idiomatic guidance on Go style, control flow, interfaces, methods, and core library usage.

• Author: Go Team
• Authority: primary
• Kind: guide
• URL: https://go.dev/doc/effective_go

What it covers

• idiomatic API and type design
• error and control-flow style
• methods interfaces and general style

Why authoritative

Go Team guidance on idiomatic code structure and style.

Use when

• what is the idiomatic Go style here
• is this Effective Go compliant
• how should this Go code be structured idiomatically

Keywords

• idiomatic Go, style, interfaces, methods, effective go

Used by

• buffered-channels
• channels
• defer
• dependency-injection
• embedding
• init-functions
• interface-design
• io-readers
• maps
• named-result-parameters
• receiver-choice
• slices
• strings
• zero-values
• package-and-import-semantics
• communicating-sequential-processes
• go-concurrency-philosophy
• gofmt-and-formatting
• new-vs-make
• fmt-printing
• getters
• interface-names