Go Best Practices

Production patterns from Google, Uber, and the Go team. Updated for Go 1.25.

Sub-skills: skills/go-error-handling, skills/go-concurrency, skills/go-testing, skills/go-performance, skills/go-code-review, skills/go-linting, skills/go-project-layout, skills/go-security. Deep-dive references in references/.

Core Principles

Readable code prioritizes these attributes in order:

1. Clarity: purpose and rationale are obvious to the reader
2. Simplicity: accomplishes the goal in the simplest way
3. Concision: high signal to noise ratio
4. Maintainability: easy to modify correctly
5. Consistency: matches surrounding codebase

Error Handling