Go Design Patterns

Go favors composition over inheritance and simplicity over abstraction. These patterns are idiomatic Go — not Java patterns ported to Go.

Detailed reference material, loaded on demand:

• references/creation-patterns.md — functional options (full example), options vs config struct, constructors, factory.
• references/behavioral-patterns.md — strategy, middleware/decorator, result type, defer cleanup, sentinel vs zero values.

Read a reference file only when the summary below is not enough.

Pattern Selection