cheney-practical-go

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SKILL.md

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Overview

Dave Cheney is a Go contributor, prolific blogger, and author of "Practical Go." His talks and writing focus on real-world Go patterns, error handling philosophy, and performance optimization without sacrificing readability.

Core Philosophy

"Clear is better than clever."

"Errors are just values."

"Make the zero value useful."

Cheney believes in practical, production-ready code. His approach: write clear code first, understand the performance characteristics, optimize only what matters.

Design Principles

  1. Errors Are Values: Handle them, wrap them, or return them—but never ignore them.
Installs
9
GitHub Stars
6
First Seen
Feb 1, 2026
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