Going Go

goinggo.net · Personal blog · on HN since 2013

William Kennedy, author of Go in Action, writes tutorials on Go concurrency, slices, channels, and package management.

What HN saysCommenters call it invaluable for learning Go and describe Kennedy as a great teacher; his OOP mechanics post is cited.
23HN people shared it
5linked it in comments
30stories submitted
221story points
9 years agolast shared
2013people per year2026

Most-shared posts

  1. 1
    Homepage
    3 people · first shared 2014
  2. 2
    The Behavior of Go Channels
    2 people · 6 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
  3. 3
    Understanding Slices in Go
    1 people · 72 points · first shared 2013 · 10 comments on HN
  4. 4
    Running Go Programs In Iron.io
    1 people · 47 points · first shared 2013 · 5 comments on HN
  5. 5
    Using C Dynamic Libraries In Go Programs
    1 people · 34 points · first shared 2013 · 11 comments on HN
  6. 6
    Recursion and Tail Calls in Go
    1 people · 17 points · first shared 2015 · 6 comments on HN
  7. 7
    Methods, Interfaces and Embedded Types in Go
    1 people · 6 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
  8. 8
    Installing Go, Gocode, GDB and LiteIDE
    1 people · 4 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
  9. 9
    Exported/Unexported Identifiers In Go
    1 people · 4 points · first shared 2014 · discussion on HN
  10. 10
    For Range Semantics in Go
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
  11. 11
    Collections Of Unknown Length in Go
    1 people · 3 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
  12. 12
    Go Stacks and Pointers
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN
  13. 13
    Composition with Go
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
  14. 14
    Stack Traces in Go
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2015 · discussion on HN
  15. 15
    Language Mechanics on Escape Analysis
    1 people · 2 points · first shared 2017 · discussion on HN

What HN people wrote when they linked it

joshbaptiste · 2017-06-01
Honorable mention of https://www.goinggo.net/ William is one of the Authors of "Go in Action" and a great teacher.
ENTP · 2017-01-27
I found William Kennedy's blog to be invaluable when learning Go. He's also a top bloke. https://www.goinggo.net
a_bonobo · 2014-03-26
They're all cofounders/involved in Gophercon, here are linkedin profiles: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brianketelsen http://www.linkedin.com/in/erikstmartin Can't find for William Kennedy, so here's his blog: http://www.goinggo.net/
kyrra · 2014-03-18
There are some people trying to remedy this issue. While the Golang designers don't feel the need to include it in the language, others may resolve this. Id recommend reading the goals doc, as they seem to have a good starting point. http://www.goinggo.net/2014/01/go-package-management-for-2014.html?m=1
zalmoxes · 2015-04-03
Go is an example of a classless OOP language. Here's a good example http://www.goinggo.net/2015/03/object-oriented-programming-mechanics.h…

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