Ask HN: Best example codebases written in Go

6 points by igolden 6y ago ↗ HN

Saw this question asked in 2017, asking again for 2019. What codebases do you think are the best examples of go?

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[dead] bitbatbangboo 6y ago ↗

What do you mean by best?

Yeah, poor choice of words. Really just looking for codebases that are idiomatic, well written, and fun to read. Inspiration

I'm not a Go expert so hard to judge, but:

github.com/rclone/rclone - Somewhat complex with abstractions, plugins, filesystems, networking, multi-platform support etc

Go is self-hosting (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-hosting_(compilers)) and not that old, so the source of the go compiler and its tools (https://go.googlesource.com/go) should be good examples (possibly not of all language features)